East India Company
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Law in a Free State
Historical trading company cited as a precedent for private maintenance of armed forces.
Some people think that traders should be left to take care of themselves, to raise and maintain their own armies and fleets, as the East India Company did last century.
And here again is a filibustering company got up by adventurous traders, of the old East India Company stamp, for the purpose of carrying trade into foreign countries with or without the consent of the invaded parties.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
A trading corporation invoked hypothetically as an extreme example of the kind of powerful chartered body congress could create if its incorporating power were unlimited.
If the convention was mistaken, and really conferred upon congress an unlimited incorporating power, though it intended to do no such thing, then congress may create an East India corporation, settle it upon the Pacifick ocean, and under the power to dispose of the lands of the United States, endow it with a western territory;
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The East India Company, from whom the Duke is charged with extorting ten thousand pounds through the Admiralty court and Parliament.
About the end of Michaelmas term 1623, the Duke had information given him, by a principal member of their own Company, that the Company had made a great advantage to themselves in the seas of East India, and other parts of Asia and Africa, by rich prizes gotten there forcibly from the Portugales and others;
Therefore, to clear that scruple, that, as the matter of the suit was just, or at least so probable, as the Company willingly desired it for their peace, for the manner was just and honourable;
And upon this composition concluded by His Majesty, the Company desired and obtained a pardon for all that was objected against them.
The Law of Torts
Company whose dealings with native states and princes' property generated the acts-of-state litigation discussed.
A series of decisions of the Indian Supreme Courts and the Privy Council have applied this rule to the dealings of the East India Company with native States and with the property of native princes.