Excerpt from Combination, Consolidation and Succession of Corporations: Principles, Rules and Leading Cases Collated Classified, Abridged and Annotated It is with great diffidence that the following pages are offered to the profession; and ere doing so at all this apology is made both for the author and the subject; for the author, that he has undertaken, perhaps too rashly, a task which it might well have been hoped and expected would have been allotted to some one more able and experienced; for the subject, that a full and exhaustive treatment, commensurate with its importance, should have been so long delayed. Scope of the effort herewith presented is not readily designated, just as many legal principles are more easily illustrated than defined. Without attempting to state precisely what is and what is not included, and omitting most likely in the book itself many things which should not have been omitted, but on the other hand, by way of equitable compensation, including many things which should have been omitted, suffice it to say that the underlying plan of the endeavor, at least so far as betrayed by any overt act, is to consider those cases which affect a corporation in its own existence - deal, as it were, with its own entity, with the modification and possible destruction which may befall the same in the various vicissitudes to which it may from time to time be subjected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.