Publications of the Foundation for Research in Legal History, Columbia University School of Law
Notes
Bibliography: p. [314]-318.
Contents
Chapters: The Problem // Precedent Forms Of Association // Colonial Business Organization // Pre-Revolutionary Land Companies // Post Revolutionary Land Companies // Corporations vs Associations : The Business Community's Attitudes // Corporations vs Associations : Legislative Vagaries // Corporations vs Associations : Judicial Inertia
Lynn Iron Works -- Free Society of traders -- Frankfort Company -- Connecticut Copper Mines -- Principio Company -- Equivalent Land Company -- Land and Silver Banks in Massachusetts -- Status of the Corporation -- French and Continental Law -- 1748 Ohio Company -- Susquehannah Company -- Transylvania Project -- Companyof Military Adventurers Mississippi Company -- Illinois-Wabash Companies -- Ilinois Company -- Indiana Company -- Grand Ohio Company, or Vandalia -- Dismal Swamp Adventurers -- Lesser Land Project -- Ohio Company -- Yazoo Companies -- North American Land Company -- Asylum Company -- Eastern Land Associates -- Connecticut Land Company -- Fire Lands -- Gore Land Company -- Western New York Companies -- "Castorland".
Summary
"A treatise on the rise of the modern business corporation from early American land companies and the subsequent enactment of general incorporation laws in the United States." [from Amazon]
