In a joint-stock company the members are known as shareholders and their share in the ownership, control and profits of the corporation is determined by the portion of shares in the company that they own.

Great-West Life is currently a subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco, which is itself a joint-stock corporation traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

A common model is for state institutions to be corporatized and operated as autonomous joint-stock companies, while still being majority state-owned and run by state entities separate from a central government.

Some jurisdictions still provide the possibility of registering joint-stock companies without limited liability.

Thus a person who owns a quarter of the shares of a joint-stock company owns a quarter of the company, is entitled to a quarter of the profit ( or at least a quarter of the profit given to shareholders as dividends ) and has a quarter of the votes capable of being cast at general meetings.

: The Court the East India Company you say, are ruffled by my having caused the Maharajah to cede to the Queen the Koh-i-noor ; while the ' Daily News ' and my Lord Ellenborough of India, 1841-44 are indignant because I did not confiscate everything to her Majesty ... motive was simply this: that it was more for the honour of the Queen that the Koh-i-noor should be surrendered directly from the hand of the conquered prince into the hands of the sovereign who was his conqueror, than it should be presented to her as a gift — which is always a favour — by any joint-stock company among her subjects.

Following the 1978 reforms, the People's Republic of China instituted what it calls a " socialist market economy ", in which most of the economy is under state ownership, but the state enterprises are reorganized into joint-stock companies where various government agencies own controlling shares through a shareholder system.

The company operating the airport is Prague Airport ( Letiště Praha, a. s .), a joint-stock company that has one shareholder, the Ministry of Finance.

A joint-stock company is a business entity which is owned by shareholders.

In modern corporate law, the existence of a joint-stock company is often synonymous with incorporation ( i. e. possession of legal personality separate from shareholders ) and limited liability ( meaning that the shareholders are only liable for the company's debts to the value of the money they invested in the company ).

Finding the earliest joint-stock company is a matter of definition.

Air Algérie is a joint-stock company SPA with a capital of 43. 000. 000. 000 DA.

Frequently the name of the city is associated with the joint-stock company Severstal products, which are exported to more than fifty countries.

The joint-stock company Severstal is one of the global exporters of ferrous and non-ferrous metals: iron, steel, hot-rolled plates, cold roll-formed shapes, and other products.

The airport is a state-owned joint-stock company, with the owner of all shares being the government of Latvia.

A merchantman is any non-naval vessel, including Tankers, freighters, or cargo ships, but not troopships ; East Indiaman was a merchantman licensed to or by an East India joint-stock company.

Misfeasance is also used with reference to the conduct of directors and officers of joint-stock companies.

The " All-Russia Exhibition Centre " is a state joint-stock company, officially abbreviated as GAO " VVC ", which stands for " Gosudarstvennoye Aktsionernoye Obshchestvo ' Vserossiyskiy Vystavochny Centr '".

Matador, a. s. ( a joint-stock company ) is a multinational car tire producer based in Púchov, Slovakia, as well as the corresponding group of companies.

Xenophon is credited to have made the first suggestion of the creation of an organisation known in the modern definition as a joint-stock bank in On Revenues written circa 353 B. C.

* 1553 – First joint-stock company, the Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands, is chartered in London.

Some economic historians argue that Phips ' find significantly changed history because it led to a major increase in the formation of joint-stock companies, and even played a role in the eventual formation in the Bank of England.

China Construction Bank Corporation was formed as a joint-stock commercial bank in September 2004 as a result of a separation procedure undertaken by its predecessor, China Construction Bank, under the PRC Company Law.

In February 1923, he involved in organizing the establishment of joint-stock economic entities under the leadership from the party-An Yuan Road miners ’ consumer cooperatives.

In 1834, the London and Westminster Bank was the first firm founded under the auspices of the Bank Charter Act 1833, which allowed joint-stock banks to be established in the capital.

Owing to the SNB ’ s public mandate, the powers of the Shareholders ’ Meeting are not as extensive as in joint-stock companies under private law.

The current article incorporates information about both the brand and the joint-stock successor of AZLK for the sake of simplicity.

Four years later the Joint Stock Companies Act 1856 provided for limited liability for all joint-stock companies provided, amongst other things, that they include the word " limited " in their company name.

The East India Company was established in 1600 as a joint-stock company of English merchants who received, by a series of charters, exclusive rights to English trade with the " Indies ", defined as the lands lying between the Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan ; the term " India " had been derived from the name of a river, the Indus, long important to commerce and civilization in the region.

Emirates Telecommunication Corporation – Etisalat was founded in 1976 as a joint-stock company between International Aeradio Limited, a British Company, and local partners.

This private bank converted into a joint-stock company in 1865, becoming Lloyds Bank Limited in 1889.

A memorable example of these sorts of schemes " involved the idea of running the poor through a joint-stock company ".

* N. Magomedov-the head of joint-stock company " Arsi ".

It was Governor Thomas Dudley who, in 1650, signed the charter creating the corporation which still governs Harvard College.

FASA unexpectedly ceased active operations on April 30, 2001, but still exists as a corporation holding intellectual property rights, which it licenses to other publishers.

This is because they do not have to pay any corporation tax but will still benefit from the island's business.

This corporation later surrendered the bonds to the new Saint Louis and Santa Fe Railroad, from whence they were still later assigned to the Land Grant Railroad & Construction Company of New York.

Although the corporation upgraded the route in 1827, the road was still very tough to travel for passengers and people hauling expensive goods.

Today, Ontario still has a manufacturing industry, the most notable of which is the Maglite corporation, which produces flashlights there.

Also, East Longmeadow was home to Milton Bradley Company for many years, and still houses one of their largest facilities after Hasbro bought this corporation in 1984.

Although conflict zones often lack functioning legal systems, and government may even have passed laws immunizing private mercenaries from criminal liability, aiding and abetting a war crime can still be the basis for civil liability in a foreign court with jurisdiction over the defendant corporation.

Escheat can still occur in England and Wales, if a person is made bankrupt or a corporation is liquidated.

During the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, the short forms used in the corporation's logo were " Mail " ( English ) and " Poste " ( French ), rendered as " Mail Poste " in English Canada, and " Poste Mail " in Quebec, although English-language advertising also still referred to the corporation as " Canada Post ".

For example, although the United States is not a corporation, it still has organizational components and has a certain image and identity.

The commune was supported through the manufacture of silverware, and the corporation still exists today, producing spoons and forks for households of the world.

A rather significant legal fiction that is still in use today is corporate personhood ( see corporation ).

During his nine-year retirement from Parliament, Virolainen still actively followed the Finnish political affairs and sometimes gave interviews on current topics ( the Finnish broadcasting corporation YLE " Living Archives " / Elävä arkisto, search words: " Johannes Virolainen ").

Therefore, an individual who lives in a location where the chief law enforcement officer will not sign a transfer form can still own an NFA item if he or she owns a corporation.

The corporation still holds the record for the longest continuous dividend history: it paid out annual dividends to shareholders for more than 100 years in a row.

Until 2006, the corporation used the font in all its media output ; however, the unveiling of its new idents for BBC One and BBC Two has signalled a shift away from its universal use, as other fonts were used for their respective on-screen identities, but the BBC logo still uses the typeface.

It is clearly set a number of centuries prior to the events of his novelette " Mother Earth " and the novel The Caves of Steel, during a period in which the Spacer worlds have yet to turn against the people of the Earth, and in which the U. S. Robots corporation is still active.

It is clearly set a number of centuries prior to the events of his novelette " Mother Earth " and the novel The Caves of Steel, during a period in which the Spacer worlds have yet to turn against the people of the Earth, and in which the U. S. Robots corporation is still active.

A cleanup effort was orchestrated by the corporation once weathering was complete to undo this damage, but the sidewalks still have a decidedly rusty tinge.

The Norton Abrasives plant still exists, now part of the Saint-Gobain corporation.

At President Potter's suggestion, the two colleges established a joint corporate identity, adopting a " family name ", The Colleges of the Seneca, which still is the legal name of the combined corporation.

The corporation was still able to construct a ' compromise ' power development scheme on the nearby King River and Henty River to compensate for the loss of the potential power generation from the Franklin scheme.

The company is still registered as an " active " corporation with Industry Canada as of June 2011, but this merely indicates that the aforementioned bankruptcy proceedings continue.