Salomon v A Salomon & Co Ltd
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Salomon v A Salomon & Co Ltd UKHL 1, AC 22 is a landmark UK company law case. The effect of the House of Lords' unanimous ruling was to uphold firmly the doctrine of corporate personality, as set out
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Lindley LJ was the leading expert on partnerships and company law.
Lord Halsbury LC, a conservative peer and author of Halsbury's Laws took a strict literalist approach to legislative interpretation.
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Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten, was an Anglo-Irish law lord, barrister, rower, and Conservative-Unionist politician.
Salomon v A Salomon & Co Ltd
…of its nature as such, and could by consulting the register of shareholders become aware of the breakdown of share ownership among the shareholders. Lord Macnaghten asked what was wrong with Mr. Salomon taking advantage of the provisions set out in the statute, as he was perfectly legitimately entitled to do. It…
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