Shareholders
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The Law of Torts
Persons invited to subscribe for shares in a company, treated as the class to whom a prospectus's representations are addressed.
but it is not deemed to be addressed to persons who after the establishment of the company become purchasers of shares at one or more removes from the original holders, for the office of the prospectus is exhausted when once the shares are allotted.
When a prospectus is issued to shareholders in a company or the like to invite subscriptions to a loan, a statement of the purposes for which the money is wanted—in other words, of the borrower’s intention as to its application—is a material statement of fact, and if untrue may be ground for an action of deceit.
Law in a Free State
The shareholders of the hypothetical joint-stock companies, used throughout as an analogy for citizens bound together by the minimal compact of the State.
and we have therefore agreed to forgo our rights (otherwise admitted) of taking what we want from each other by force or fraud.
The shareholders in the second company are not banded together or mutually pledged and bound by a multitude of obligations, but by the fewest compatible with the joint aim.