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Molding The Corporate Form To Particular Business Situations: Optional Charter Clauses, F. Hodge O'Neal
Molding The Corporate Form To Particular Business Situations: Optional Charter Clauses, F. Hodge O'Neal
Vanderbilt Law Review
This paper looks into the usefulness of optional (or as they are sometimes called, "permissive" or "special") charter provisions' in molding the corporate form of business organization to meet the diverse needs of particular business situations. It first examines statutory materials and judicial decisions bearing on the validity and effect of optional provisions. It then considers optional clauses in current use and typical legal and business problems that optional clauses may help to solve. It shows that optional clauses often can be used to clarify the rights and other relations of participants in an enterprise, to avoid disadvantageous corporate "norms," …
Conflict Of Laws -- 1956 Tennessee Survey, John W. Wade
Conflict Of Laws -- 1956 Tennessee Survey, John W. Wade
Vanderbilt Law Review
Personal Jurisdiction: In State v. Perry, the Tennessee Department of Public Welfare, which had paid sums for the support of dependents of certain nonresidents, brought an action against the nonresidents for reimbursement and for an order to pay money in the future. No personal service was had on the defendants, and the court held that the Tennessee statute does not authorize the court "to enter a personal judgment against a non-resident husband-father upon the ex parte petition, when that husband-father is not personally before the Court, and afforded no opportunity to be heard.' It correctly implied that such a proceeding …
Equity -- 1956 Tennessee Survey, Val Sanford
Equity -- 1956 Tennessee Survey, Val Sanford
Vanderbilt Law Review
One of the most important characteristics of the administration of justice in Tennessee is the maintenance of separate courts of law and equity. While numerous statutes have been enacted from time to time in an effort to clarify the jurisdiction of the two courts and the boundaries of their respective jurisdictions have been further defined by the courts, nevertheless, cases are still dismissed because they are brought in the wrong court...