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An order, line or right of succession is the line of individuals necessitated to hold a high office when it becomes vacated, such as head of state or an honour such as a title of nobility. [1] This sequence may be regulated through descent or by statute.
The beneficiaries of the shares by transmission must have their names entered in the register of members of the company or elect a nominee to hold the shares on their behalf. In this case the nominee’s name shall be entered in the Register of members of the company to become a member of the company (section 155 (3) of CAMA).
In common law jurisdictions, a personal representative or legal personal representative is a person appointed by a court to administer the estate of another person. If the estate being administered is that of a deceased person, the personal representative is either an executor if the deceased person left a will or an administrator of an intestate estate. [1]
Per stirpes (/ p ɜːr ˈ s t ɜːr p iː z /; "by roots" or "by stock") [1] is a legal term from Latin, used in the law of inheritance and estates.An estate of a decedent is distributed per stirpes if each branch of the family is to receive an equal share of an estate.
Corporations are chartered under state law, the larger mostly in Delaware, but leave investors free to organize voting rights and board representation as they choose. [120] Because of unequal bargaining power, but also historic caution of labor unions, [121] shareholders monopolize voting rights in American corporations. From the 1970s ...
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In 2019, the law was changed under the SECURE Act 2.0, although a question was left unanswered as to whether heirs would be required to take a distribution each year, or if they could wait until ...
Thus, for example, in Northwestern Nat Life Ins. Co. v. Riggs (203 U.S. 243 (1906)), the Court accepted that corporations are for legal purposes "persons", but still ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment was not a bar to many state laws which effectively limited a corporation's right to contract business as it pleased. However, this was not ...