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 INDEX. 943 References are to the Sections. LEGAL INSTITUTIONS: meaning of term, 24. resemblances between, 52-64. analogies between, 67-69. LEGAL PERSON, 2, 14, 21, 22, 51. a corporation not, in tbe Roman law, 2, 3. corporations called such in the common law, 14. inferences from the fiction, 21, 22. LEGAL RELATIONS: definition of, 24, note, 25. general nature of, existing in respect to a corporate enterprise, 40. ai-ising from incorporation, between whom existing, 37. how they arise, 25, 26, 442-144. LEGAL RELATIONS ARISING THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF A CORPORATION: the law applicable, 72. two classes of persons interested, 73. liability of promoters, general principles, 74, 75. legal relations between promoters and parties contracting with them, 76. responsibility of promoters for the acts of otber promoters, 77. liability of contracting promoter whose contract binds, or is adopted by other promoters or the corporation, 78, 79. legal relations between promoters, 80, 81. legal relations between promoters and the corporation subsequently formed; promoters' secret profits, 82-84. right of promoters to indemuity from the corporation subsequently formed, 85. liability of corporation to compensate promoters, 86. legal relations between the corporation when organized and persons with whom the promoters have contracted on its behalf, 87-90. LEGAL RELATIONS CONSEQUENT UPON AN AGREEMENT TO TAKE SHARES IN THE STOCK OF A CORPORATION TO BE ORGANIZED: is the agreement binding, 91. consideration, 92-95. conditional agreement to take shares, 96, 97. when deposits may be withdrawn, 98. certain defences, 99. legal relations arising from a valid agreement to take shares, 100. assignment of subscriber's interest, 101, 102. legal relations between subscribers and promoters, 103. when promoters are liable to subscribers for deposits, 104. fraudulent subscriptions, 105. misapplication of deposits, 106. subscriptions in general enforceable by the corporation when organ- ized, 107-109. rights of subscribers against the corporation, 110. effect of subscriber's laches, 111, 112.