Excerpt from The Nature of the Corporation as a Legal Entity: With Especial Reference to the Law of Maryland For encouragement and suggestions, I am indebted to Honorable Morris A. Soper, Chief Judge of the Baltimore Supreme Bench, and Lecturer on Corporation Law at the Univ ersity of Maryland; Dr. Arthur C. Millspaugh of the Staff of Economic Advisers in the Office of the Foreign Trade Adviser, State Department, Washington; George P. Bagby, General Attorney of the Western Maryland Railroad Company and editor of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland; and Mr. Joseph C. France. In the preparation of statistical material I acknowledge the help of Charles C. Wallace, Secretary to the Maryland State Tax Commission. 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.