Company Law and Secretarial Practice/M.J. Mathew. 2nd rev. ed. 1995, 473 p., $26.
Contents: Preface. I. Company law: 1. Brief history of company law in India. 2. Company : meaning and characteristics. 3. Kinds of companies. 4. Formation of companies. 5. Private company. 6. Memorandum of association. 7. Articles of association. 8. Prospectus. 9. Share capital. 10. Allotment of shares. 11. Shares, share certificates and share warrants. 12. Membership in companies. 13. Borrowings and investments. 14. Management of companies-I (Directors : position, appointment, vacation and removal). 15. Management of companies-II (Directors : powers, duties and liabilities). 16. Management of companies-III (Managing director, manager and managerial remuneration). 17. Prevention of oppression and mismanagement in companies. 18. Investigation. 19. Winding up of companies - I. 20. Winding up of companies - II. II. Secretarial practice: 1. Company secretary. 2. Statutory books and annual returns. 3. Allotment of shares. 4. Calls on shares, forfeiture and surrender of shares. 5. Transfer and transmission of shares. 6. Dividends. 7. Company meetings - I (Law and procedure of meetings). 8. Company meetings - II (Statutory, annual general, extra-ordinary and directors' meetings). 9. Directors' report and chairman's speech.
"The companies act provides a basic legal framework for the regulation of companies in India. Company legislation in India has gone a considerable distance away from its origin in 1850. The Honorable Courts of Law, from time to time, have also delivered valuable judgements registering the growth of the legislation.
"The companies act in India is subject to frequency of amendments. It is over-loaded with a large number of provisions which have become redundant by reason of the subsequent amendments.
"The present work, incorporated with the secretarial practice, is an attempt to present the complicated subject of Indian Company Law and Secretarial Practice in a simplified form of basic principles. This book has taken note of the amendments of the act till Sept. 1994. Almost all important cases with their illustration have been incorporated in this work." (jacket)
[M.J. Mathew is on the faculty of the Department to Business Administration, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He also wrote International Trade: Policies and Prospectives in Developing Economy and Indian Company Law.]