JOBNAME: Wells PAGE: 1 SESS: 2 OUTPUT: Thu Jan 25 11:58:25 2018 Index Age of Exploration 82 Companies Act Amendment Act agency problem 79, 122, 269–70, 358, (1917) 460–61 361, 608 Confederation (1867) 455 Asian Corporate Governance Cooperative Commonwealth Association 415 Federation (CCF) 463 corporate law Bullock Report on Industrial Dickerson report 466, 467–8 Democracy (1997) 157–8, 164 disclosure rules 459–60 fiduciary duty 471–3 Canada 11, 451 following US law 458, 459 Bankruptcy Act (1919) 459 Kimber Report (1965) 464 Canada Business Corporations Act lack of legal certainty in 461 (CBCA) (1975) 451, 466–7 Lawrence report 465 Oppression Remedy in 470 provincial differences in 469 section 122(1)(a) 470–71 reform 464–5 Canada Joint Stock Companies Act shareholder-centric, as 467–8 (1887) 459–60 shareholder rights 467, 469 Canada Joint Stock Companies Act stakeholder-centric 468, 470–71 (1902) 460 corporation Canada Joint Stock Companies concession theory of 455 Letters Patent Act (1869) 457 corporate personhood 459 case law evolution of 458, 459–62 BCE Inc. v. 1976 incorporation 453–4, 455 Debentureholders (2008) modern 464–9 471–2, 474 Dominion of Canada 457 Bonanza Creek Gold Mining Co. Hudson’s Bay Company 452 Ltd. v. The King (1916) 461 ‘Body corporate and Politique’ 453–4 Peoples Department Stores Inc. corporation, as 453 (Trustee of) V. Wise (2004) exclusive monopoly 453 471, 472, 474 incorporation (Royal Charter) 453 colonial incorporation (colonial) corporations in 452 act of legislature, by 455, 457 Hudson’s Bay Company see general statutes 455–7 Hudson’s Bay Company judicial decree, by 455, 457 below letters patent, by 454–6, 457, 465 incorporation in see incorporation Lower Canada, in 456 (colonial) below privilege, as 455 Province of Canada 455 Province of Canada, in 456, 457 restrictions on corporations 456–7 registration, by 455, 457, 465 621 Harwell Wells - 9781784717667 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 10/02/2021 02:18:07AM via free access Columns Design XML Ltd / Job: Wells-Research_handbook_on_history_of_corporate_and_company_law / Division: Index /Pg. Position: 1 / Date: 18/1 JOBNAME: Wells PAGE: 2 SESS: 2 OUTPUT: Thu Jan 25 11:58:25 2018 622 Research handbook on the history of corporate and company law Royal Charter, by 453, 454, 455 adoption in 367 Upper Canada, in 456 contracts 368 incorporation (Dominion) ancestral trusts 362–3, 364 authority 461 bottom line 369–71 differing provincial approaches functional elements 364 457 management 363, 371–3 Ontario Business Corporations Act posthumous 364–5 (1970) 465–6 prototype for 363 Ontario Companies Act (1907) 460 sale of property 370 Securities Act (1966) 464 voluntary associations, as 364–9 shareholder clan corporations 355, 356, 365–6 -centricity 467–8, 469, 470 buying women 368–9 empowerment 473 fiduciary duty in 375–6 rights 467, 469–70 kinship in 357, 366–7 socio-economic determinants in legal person, as 373–4 462–4 limited liability 374–5 corporate law reform 463–4 New Male Books 367 de facto sovereignty 462 organizing principle 357 expanding autonomy 462 transferability of ownership 374 Great Depression 462–3 primarily commercial, as 357, socialist theory 463 365 welfare state 463, 464, 468 scale of business 370–71 WWII 463 clan (zong/zu) 363 stakeholder collectivization of capital 365 -centricity 468, 470–71 mega- 366 empowerment 473–4 colonial epistemology 356–7 model 472 commercial agriculture 370 Statute of Westminster (GB) (1931) Confucianism 462 anti-mercantile attitude 356, 369 capitalism collective unity 376 clash of capitalisms 333 moral hierarchy 356 cooperative 222 society 360 coordinated 333, 334 women as non-persons 360 EU see EU corporation 377–8 European 272–3 defining 357–8 financial 127 /US comparison 355–6 industrial 254, 255, 513 dian pu (tenant/servant) 369 liberal 334, 338–46 family 358, 376–7 managerial 287 ancestral sacrifices 359, 367 Manchester 224 domestic harmony 360 New 227 fen-jia (division of household non-development in china 355 property) 361–2 private 249, 265 fiduciary duty in 361 triumph of 273 filial impiety 367 varieties of 332–3, 410 law 358–9 welfarist market 166 natural person, as 373 China 9, 355 one body conception of 376 absentee landlordism 370 patrilineal continuity 359–60, 361 Harwell Wells - 9781784717667 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 10/02/2021 02:18:07AM via free access Columns Design XML Ltd / Job: Wells-Research_handbook_on_history_of_corporate_and_company_law / Division: Index /Pg. Position: 2 / Date: 18/1 JOBNAME: Wells PAGE: 3 SESS: 4 OUTPUT: Thu Jan 25 11:58:25 2018 Index 623 prototype for clan corporation shareholder exclusivity 359 shareholders’ rights 147–50 proto-corporate characteristics of stakeholders 145 358–62 sustainability of 163–6 ritual primogeniture 359 Takeover Code (2013) 148 xiao (filial piety) 360 concession theory 176, 455, 456 marriage corporate law 2 bride price/dowry 368 see also individual countries primarily contractual, as 368 evolutionary models see virilocal 367 evolutionary models uxorilocal 367–8 CSR, and 570–72, 579 Neo-Confucianism 359, 362, 369 corporate social responsibility unity of family 376–7 Qing Code 361 history 570–72 common law 3, 5, 317, 395, 453, India, in 392, 395, 397–8 484 USA, in 12–13, 534, 592–3 /civil law comparison 138–9 corporation 82 remedies 454 see also individual states communism 545 aggregation theory 574 company law (GB) 121, 142, 166–7 concession theory 455 Companies Act (1844) 383 corporate personhood 573–7 Companies Act (1862) 135, 136, significance of 576 137 close 251–2, 259 Companies Act (1879) 136 incorporated partnerships, as 358 Companies Act (1907) 137 statutory 206 Companies Act (1985) early European 91–4 section 309 151–2 joint-stock companies 93–4 Companies Act (2006) regulated companies 92–3 section 170 150–151 stability 92 section 172 145, 146, 150, 151, features of 357–8 152, 156–7 open access to 299 Companies (Model Articles) origins of 89–91 Regulations (2008) 149 uniquely European 91–2 corporate governance 148 Corporate Governance code (2016) 149 Danish East India Company 111 pro-worker 165–6 Delaware 515, 581 evolution of 122–4, 134, 137–9 see also United States historic ambivalence of 142–4 business judgment rule 527 industrial democracy 157–60, CAPM, and 527 163–4 case law reform 133 Aronson v. Lewis (1984) 524 shareholder primacy 143, 150, 165, Benihana of Tokyo, Inc. v. 331 Benihana (2006) 525 director’s duty of loyalty, and Cede & Co. v. Technicolor, Inc. 145–7, 152–3 (1993) 528 foundations of 144–5 Gagliardi v. TriFoods historic ambiguity 150–57 International Inc. (1996) 527 Harwell Wells - 9781784717667 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 10/02/2021 02:18:07AM via free access Columns Design XML Ltd / Job: Wells-Research_handbook_on_history_of_corporate_and_company_law / Division: Index /Pg. Position: 3 / Date: 24/1 JOBNAME: Wells PAGE: 4 SESS: 4 OUTPUT: Thu Jan 25 11:58:25 2018 624 Research handbook on the history of corporate and company law In re Caremark International Inc. Council Directive 2001/86/EC 160, Derivative Litigation (1996) 161, 330, 336–7 528–9, 613–14 Directive 2003/6/EC 340–41 In re Walt Disney Co. Derivative Directive 2003/71/EC 341 Litigation (2006) 529 Directive 2004/39/EC 341 Kahn v. M&F Worldwide Directive 2004/109/EC 341 Corporation (2014) 525, 527 Directive 2005/56/EC (cross-border Smith v. Van Gorkom (1985) 528 mergers) 329, 343 Stone v. Ritter (2006) 529–30, Directive 2006/43/EC (audits) 345 614 Directive 2007/36/EC (shareholder Unocal Corp. v. Mesa Petroleum rights) 335, 343 Co. (1985) 524 revision 344, 345 deference to expert opinion 524 directors’ duties, erosion of 524, Directive 2012/30/EU 339 527, 530 Directive 2014/56/EU 335 directors’ liabilities 528 proposed Fifth directive 335–6 fairness 524–5, 527 Dutch East India Company (DEIC) 5, good faith 525, 527–31 103, 112–14 breach of duty of care 528, 529 see also Netherlands, the; India defining 528–9 capital 105 subjective nature of 259 charter 104 General Corporation Law (DGCL) corporation (1899) 524 /EIC comparison 109–110 section 102 528 failure of European competitors independent directors’ protective 110–12 effect 524 financing 105 mergers 525 governance structure 106, 107 monitoring model of board, courts Chambers 104, 106 embracing 523–4 voting rights 106 resilience 609–11 institutional framework 88–9 safe harbour 524 joint stock company 105, 112 Directives (EC/EEC/EU) limited liability 271 Council Directive 68/151/EEC quasi-state powers 271 (publicity) 233–4 shareholders 105–6 equivalent safeguards in 325–6 First Council Directive 77/91/EEC lock-in 108 234 subscribers 105 Second Council Directive trade 77/91/EEC 328–9 dominance in Cape Route 109 Fourth council Directive monopoly 108–9 78/660/EEC 332, 341 transfer of shares 108 Third Council Directive 78/855/EEC 329, 334 East India Company (EIC) 5, 96–7, Sixth Council Directive 112–14 82/891/EEC 329, 334 see also England; India Seventh council Directive capital 101, 102, 125 83/349/EEC 332, 341 charter 97–8 Directive 2004/25/EC 340–41 /DEIC comparison 109–110 Harwell Wells - 9781784717667 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 10/02/2021 02:18:07AM via free access Columns Design XML Ltd / Job: Wells-Research_handbook_on_history_of_corporate_and_company_law / Division: Index /Pg. Position: 4 / Date: 24/1 JOBNAME: Wells PAGE: 5 SESS: 4 OUTPUT: Thu Jan 25 11:58:25 2018 Index 625 failure of European competitors business 124 110–112 Crown monopoly over creation governance structure 97–9 123, 124–5 incorporation 383 joint-stock 123, 124 institutional framework 88–9 legal characteristics