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and 5 of the said Act No. 2581, and conspiring and confederating
together and helping one another, willfully, unlawfully and
feloniously trade in, negotiate and speculate with, their shares
aforesaid, by making personally or through brokers or agents
repeated and successive sales of the said shares at a price ranging
from ?100 to P300 per share, as follows:
"The accused Nicasio Osmeña sold 185 shares to nine different
parties, and the accused Jacob Rosenthal sold 12 shares to seven
others, without first obtaining the corresponding written permit
or license from the Insular Treasurer of the Commonwealth of the
Philippines, as by law provided."
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"Must the law map out, for the guidance of the licensee, a code of
ethics and post danger signals against inhibited and dishonest
practices? The defendant had no right to have the conduct of its
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In the case of State ex rel. Central Steam Heat & Power Co.
vs. Gettle (Wis. [1928], 220 N. W., 201), where it was
argued that the requirement of the Wisconsin Blue Sky
Law (St. 1925; sec. 184.09 [3]; Law 1927, c. 444) that the
Railroad Commission shall find that the "financial
condition, plan of operation, and the proposed undertakings
of the corporation are such as to afford reasonable
protection to the purchasers of the securities to be issued",
is unconstitutional for the reason that (1) the Legislature
has no power to regulate the issuance of securities in order
to protect the investing public; (2) the Legislature does not
provide a standard to control the commission; (3) the
statute is so indefinite and uncertain in its meaning as to
be incapable of administration; and (4) the statute
delegates to the railroad commission legislative power, the
court said:
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"This Act shall not apply to the holder of any speculative security
who is not the issuer thereof, nor to the person who has acquired
the same for his own account in the usual and ordinary course of
business and not for the direct or indirect promotion of any
enterprise or scheme within the purview of this Act, unless such
possession. is in good faith. Repeated and successive sales of any
such specu-
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Judgments modified.
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