Corporate Law in The United States - History

History

  • The Charitable Corporation v. Sutton (1742) 26 ER 642
  • Attorney General v. Davy (1741) 2 Atk 212
  • UK company law history
  • New York, Act Relative to Incorporations for Manufacturing Purposes of 1811, allowed for free incorporation with limited liability, but only for manufacturing businesses.
  • Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 US 1 (1824) the right of Congress to regulate interstate trade under the commerce clause.
  • M Dodd, 'American Business Association Law a Hundred Years Ago and Today', in 3 Law: A Century of Progress: 1835-1935 (Reppy 1937) 254, 289
  • Liggett v. Lee and regulatory competition
  • AA Berle and GC Means, The Modern Corporation and Private Property (1932)
  • Securities Act of 1933 and Securities and Exchange Act of 1934

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