Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Manual of the Business Corporation Law of Massachusetts This Manual contains the text of the Massachusetts Business Corporation Law of 1903, and, following each section, concise notes of such decisions upon the effect of former statutes relating to corporations as may aid in the construction and interpretation of the new act. In the second chapter, such miscellaneous provisions of the Revised Laws are collected as are applicable to corporations which are subject to the Business Corporation Law. The Appendix contains the official forms prescribed by the Commissioner of Corporations and other forms which may be useful in the organization and management of corporations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.