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Business Organizations Law

Washington Law Review

1988

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Stock Subscription Law For Practitioners, Richard O. Kummert Jan 1988

Stock Subscription Law For Practitioners, Richard O. Kummert

Washington Law Review

Law review analysis of stock subscription law—the law related to promises to pay to a corporation a stated sum for a specified number of unissued shares—has been noticeably lacking in recent years. I suspect the most prominent reasons for the void center on the feeling in the academic community that subscriptions are used infrequently and that in any event the law related to them is settled. The material that follows demonstrates that both these propositions are false: subscriptions appear to be used with some frequency in the formation of small corporations, and the law related to them remains complex and …


Stock Subscription Law For Practitioners, Richard O. Kummert Jan 1988

Stock Subscription Law For Practitioners, Richard O. Kummert

Washington Law Review

Law review analysis of stock subscription law—the law related to promises to pay to a corporation a stated sum for a specified number of unissued shares—has been noticeably lacking in recent years. I suspect the most prominent reasons for the void center on the feeling in the academic community that subscriptions are used infrequently and that in any event the law related to them is settled. The material that follows demonstrates that both these propositions are false: subscriptions appear to be used with some frequency in the formation of small corporations, and the law related to them remains complex and …