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]
Land and labor. Their relations - emancipation of labor demands a reformed land policy - railroad and canal subsidies - the period of distribution to follow that of development - the measures and policy of the Republican Party
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-292) and index.
Summary
"Measuring America is the fascinating, provocative, and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measures -the American Customary System, unlike any other in the world- and how this has profoundly shaped our country and culture. In the process, Measuring America reveals the colossal power contained inside the acres and miles, ounces and pounds, that we use every day without ever realizing their significance. " [from the publisher]
"Speech of Hon. T. Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Representatives, June 11, 1852, on the Public Lands-the Tariff." The speech addresses the House on the matter of several land bills with the question of the right and policy of government to dispose of public lands. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.
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Other Numbers
MG-115
Other Number
MG-115, Part 1, Folder 9, Insert 1
Classification
MG0115
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
Added to database 12 November 2022.
Old # MG-115, Part 1, Folder 9, Insert 1
Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 202010016624, 2020-2023.
