Trust Companies, Volume 14

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Trust Companies Pub. Association, 1912 - Corporations
 

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Page 290 - If present at a meeting of the directors at which any act, proceeding or omission of such directors in violation of this chapter...
Page 237 - No bank shall be liable to a depositor for the payment by it of a forged or raised check, unless within one year after the return to the depositor of the voucher of such payment, such depositor shall notify the bank that the check so paid was forged or raised.
Page 289 - Wilfully does any act as such director which is expressly forbidden by law, or wilfully omits to perform any duty imposed upon him as such director by law, Is guilty of a misdemeanor, if no other punishment is proscribed therefor by law.
Page 373 - What was this committee charged to do? To inquire into the nature and history of the real estate pool. How indefinite! What was the real estate pool ? Is it charged with any crime or offense? If so, the courts alone can punish the members of it.
Page 205 - ... shall ascertain, from the best sources of information at his command, whether the character and general fitness of the persons named as stockholders are such as to command...
Page 373 - Was it to be simply a fruitless investigation into the personal affairs of individuals ? If so, the House of Representatives had no power or authority in the matter more than any other equal number of gentlemen interested for the government of their country. By " fruitless " we mean that it could result in no valid legislation on the subject to which the inquiry referred.
Page 373 - If so, the courts alone can punish the members of it. Is it charged with a fraud against the government ? Here, again, the courts, and they alone, can afford a remedy. Was it a corporation whose powers Congress could repeal ? There is no suggestion of the kind. The word "pool...
Page 459 - That if, upon a careful examination of the facts so reported, and of any other facts which may come to the knowledge of the Comptroller, whether by means of a special commission appointed by him for the purpose of inquiring into the condition of such association or otherwise...
Page 459 - Whether the responsibility, character and general fitness for the discharge of the duties appertaining to such a trust, of the persons named in such certificate, are such as to command the confidence of the community in which such savings bank is proposed to be located.
Page 353 - ... to the effect that the same is true and correct in all respects to the best of his knowledge and belief...

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