Page:Henry Osborn Taylor, A Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations (5th ed, 1905).djvu/953

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INDEX. 933 References are to the Sections. DISSOLUTION OP CORPORATIONS— (continued). by surrender of franchises, 20, 433, 434. creditors cannot prevent, 664. jurisdiction of equity to dissolve a corporation, 611. court cannot dissolve a foreign corporation, 394. consequences of, 435-437. at common law, 20, 21. consequences of, at Roman law, 6, note. suits by and against corporations abated by, 150, note, 435. no rights can be acquired against corporation after, 813, note. corporate capacities when preserved after, 436. lease to corporation not determined by, 437, note. relations between shareholders and creditors on, 750, 751. relations among shareholders on, 786. not always requisite to relieve officers from duty to file annual reports, 770. DITCHES, railroad company liable for obstructing, 173. DIVERGENCY OF INTEREST IN A CORPORATE ENTERPRISE, 116, 117. DIVIDENDS: directors cannot delegate authority to declare, 234. evidence of, 263, note. court will not enjoin directors of foreign corporation from paying, 394. shareholders have no absolute right to, before declaration, 562, 563. when shareholders may compel declaration, 563. on preferred shares cumulative, 564. payable only out of profits, 565. recovery of, when illegally paid, 566, 567. application of statutes of limitation, 566, note, transferee not liable to return dividends paid to his transferrer, 719, note. shareholders improperly receiving, cannot set off debt against liability to return, 568. after declaration belonging to shareholders, 568, 750. even as against creditors, 750. stock dividends, 568, 800, 801. right to, as between transferrer and transferee, 798. right to, as between life-tenant and remainder-man, 799-801. scrip dividend, when bequest of shares does not carry, 798, note. DOMICILE OF CORPORATION CREATED BY TWO STATES, 407, note, 409. See Federal Courts, Foreign Corporations. DOUBLE TAXATION, 477a. DRAINS, railroad company liable for obstructing, 173. DRUNKEN PERSON MAY BE EXCLUDED FROM CARS, 348. DUE PROCESS OF LAW, 470-472, 480, 492, 492a. EARNINGS: right to, as between general creditors and mortgagees, 820.