Being much older than the other joint stock banks, it belongs to a less profitable era.
Generally speaking the career of Joint Stock Companies in this country has been chequered.
Such a government for a joint stock company is very good if its essential nature be attended to, and very bad if that nature be not attended to.
Stockholder--An owner of stock in a corporation or joint stock company.
A joint stock company is a large partnership in which the capital is divided into shares which are distributed among the partners in proportion to their interests.
Joint Stock--Property owned in common by several individuals known as stockholders.
The like fell out in the Turkie Company, when they constrained men to a joint stock; since the breaking of which combination, there go four ships for one.
No evil, of any kind whatever, resulted to the incorporated, or Joint Stock Company, from the privilege enjoyed by the out ports.
In Upper Canada the turnpikes were controlled by joint stock companies in the main and were kept in a miserable condition.
In 1869 it was transformed into a joint stock institution, and received a charter under the name Merchants Bank of Halifax.
The same system has provided methods for economical use of savings in joint stock companies, and cultivated a general unity of purpose and appreciation of others' welfare.
When the savings of the multitude can be perfectly united in a joint stock company, to furnish the capital with which the same people work, the general conditions of wealth production for all the community are fairly met.
A joint stock company, insuring with definite premium, is likely to bring the best business management, the quickest though not always the fairest adjustment of losses, and the confidence of the business community.
The opinion of the great majority of the House of Commons was that the Indian trade could be advantageously carried on only by means of a joint stockand a monopoly.
The bill passed, and was followed by bills for laying additional duties on imports, and for taxing the dividends of joint stock companies.
Nothing could be more entertaining than the character of these meetings, as compared with a modern board-meeting of a joint stock enterprise.
But the plan met with a sudden arrest by an event which then happened, and which in beggaring multitudes altered the whole disposition of the public with regard to joint stock enterprises.
Hardly a day passed without a new swindling concern being started as a joint stock company.
The value of a share in a joint stock is always the price which it will bring in the market; and this may be either greater or less in any proportion, than the sum which its owner stands credited for in the stock of the company.
When they trade upon a joint stock, each member sharing in the common profit or loss, in proportion to his share in this stock, they are called joint-stock companies.
When a company is to be registered the memorandum of association accompanied by a copy of the articles is taken to the office of the registrar of joint stock companies at Somerset House, together with the following documents:-- 1.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "joint stock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
