Excerpt from Legal Phases of Cooperative Associations Formerly all corporations in this country were created by special acts; that is, a special act was passed by the legislature of the State every time a corporation was created. It was believed that this practice led to favoritism and unjust discrimination,11 and gradually it. Has come to pass that practically all of the States have adopted constitutional provisions prohibiting, with certain exceptions in some States, the creation of corporations by special acts. 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.