Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The total amount of stock authorized for issue by a corporation, including common and preferred stock.
- n. The total stated or par value of the permanently invested capital of a corporation.
Wiktionary
- n. law, accounting The total amount of common and preferred stock (shares) that a company can issue.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. money, property, or stock invested in any business, or the enterprise of any corporation or institution.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the book value of the outstanding shares of a corporation
- n. the maximum number of shares authorized under the terms of a corporation's articles of incorporation
Examples
“A bill entitled an act to enable the counties of Lowndes, Oktibbeha and Noxubee, and the city of Columbes, to settle up and close their subscription to the capital stock of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company.”
“Page 469 that all tax fees paid by attorneys for Licenses in the different Counties of the State, shall be paid the Clerk of the County in which such license is obtained, and the amount so collected by said Clerk shall be paid over to the Publick Treasurer of the State as other publick monies, and by him applied to the Literary Fund, and the sum shall constitute a part of the capital stock of said fund, any law to the contrary not withstanding1.”
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I
“Also, reported a bill entitled "an act to enable the counties of Lowndes, Oktibbeha and Noxubee, and the city of Columbus, to settle up and close their subscriptions to the capital stock of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company," which,”
“A bill to increase the capital stock of the Elk river turn-pike company.”
Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.
“A bill to increase the capital stock of the Richmond and York river rail road company.”
Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.
“End of first section, "forty cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock of all incorporated cotton manufacturies in this State.”
Journal of the Senate of South Carolina: Being the Session of 1862.
“An act to enable the counties of Lowndes, Oktibbeha and Noxubee, and the city of Columbus to settle up and close their subscription to the capital stock of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company.”
“This House respectfully refuses leave to the Senate to restore the amendment at the end of the first section of the Supply Bill, which amendment is "forty cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock of all incorporated Cotton Manufactories in this State.”
Journal of the Senate of South Carolina: Being the Session of 1862.
“Ar act entitled an act to enable the counties of Lowndes, Oktibbeha and Noxubee and the city of Columbus, to settle up and close their subscription to the capital stock of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company.”
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