The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-16
ISAAC DIGGS.
BEN. T. BARRET.
Richmond. Va. January 1907.


Richmond. Va. January 1907.
The book is divided into case and
statute law. In the case law It's titles
are, CD Corporation Generally: ~
( Municipal Corporations. 90 Railroads
Negligence and Damages" References
10 the best teXt-writcrs arc used on all
occasions. among them being: Cook on
Corporations Beach on Private Corpora
tons. Thompson on Corporations. TAYLOR
on Corporations. Minors Institutes lies
Notes on Corporations. Dillon on Munich
Ial Corporations. Lndley on Partnerships.
Parsons on Partnership Jones on Negli-
gence. Watson on Damages. Thompson
and Merriam on Juries. Bishop on Con-
tracts ThOmpson's Law Of Electricity.
Elliott on Railroads. etc
I'm tho last NAMED authority. out or 81 So
cases cited. the 2Z3 from Virginia. IN va
rious applications, are compared by the
author with numerous other decisions
constituting tho same and similar laws.
Federal decisions on these Virginia laws
are used throughout the work.
In the statute laws are given all those
that arc now operative Included among
them are the general laws on certificates
% charters: amendments. etc: capital.
surrender. MANAGEMENT. directors and
other officers: dissolutOns: railroads.
steamships. telegraph telephones. canal.
turnpikes and other public service cor
poratOns. corporations requiring no capt
tai stock: general provisions governing
all corporations other than those men
toned. general powers. duration; bonded
Indebtedness: liens on property and fran
chise; business. directors. annual and
other meetings: property: offices; assign
ments; bylaws. subscriptions. ciass.fca-
ton OF officers. etc. kinds % stock; stock
holders. shares. voting. elections,
pledges; grievances; DANA ages: IRREGULAR
ties; delinquencies; purchasers. bond
holders. Inspections. trustees, lost. etc,
stock: reports to Corporation Commission
consolidation: suits: guarantees. ac-
knowled gTnents: notices: misuser. etc,
fees. books etc: liability 81 officers.
peels foreign companies. state Corpora
tion Commission. and it's laws and gov
eminent OF corporate public service
corporations; railroads. steamships. ca
nails. turnpike. transportation. transmits
sion and express companies. heat. power.
light. electric railway. cold storage. Via
duct. conduit. bridge. gas and water
companies; eminent domain statutes. mis-
cellaneOus statutes. giving among them
fees on charters. domestic and foreign.
tax on same: insurance laws. Bureau OF
Insurance. and its laws. life insurance.
co operative and casualty. marine and
indemnity. mutual assessment and cor
operative fire. lightning and storm insur-
ance; guarantee. trust. indemnity. fidelity
and security companies: aunotations Of
New Jersey decisions on similar statutes.
from which ours are mostly taken.
Useful forms for preparing charters. ny
laws. keeping minutes, and other papers
pertaining, as bonds, mortgages, etc.
All its statutes are specially abstracted,
with section. headings.
A very fun general index Of about 10
pages r. added to aid the digest or al
phabetical anEement OF the subjects
treated In the work. There is also an
appendix. being our new Constitution.
with an abstract OF its sections in spe-
cial headings and a very complete spe-
cial index Of thirty-seven douhle-column-
ID pages. amounting 20 seventy-four
pages Of the usual style.
Tho work Is from the press Of the @.
f. Picot Printing Company. OF Richmond.
va. and went on sale Monday. January
14th. a little more than year
after It's beginning and Mr.. John Hart.
OF this city. has been selected as agent
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