ACT 1956
PRESENTED BY:GROUP LEADER:- HARSHITA BHATIA
ABHISHEK KUMAR
PRAGYA SHARMA
RAFEEQ AHMAD
INTRODCUTION
The Company act came into force from 1 April
1956
The act was based upon the recommendation
of company law committee appointed under the
Chairmanship of Mr. C.H. BHABA on
25.10.1950.
The company submitted its report in 1952 the
Indian company act extends to whole India
DEFINIATION
The word 'Company' is a mixture of the Latin
word 'Com' meaning "with or together" and
'Pains' meaning "bread". Originally, it referred to
a group of persons who took their meals together.
A company is nothing but a group of persons who
have come together or who have contributed
money for some common person and who have
incorporated themselves into a distinct legal entity
in the form of a company for that purpose.
INCORPORATION
UNDER COMPANY ACT
1956
Separate legal entities
Artificial person
Perpetual existence
Common seal
Limited liability
Transferability of shares
Separate legal
entity
Artificial person
A company is purely a creation of law. It is
invisible, intangible and exists only in the
eyes of law.
It has no soul, no body but has a position to
enter or exist into a contract.
In short it can do anything just like a normal
person.
Perpetual existence
sec 34(2)
Common seal
A company being an artificial person can
not work as a natural being.
Therefore, it has to work through its
directors, officers and other employees.
Common seal used as a official signature of
a company.
Limited liability
It means that the liability of a member shall
be limited to the value of the share held by
him, he cannot be called upon to bear the
loss from his personal property.
Transferability of
share sec82
Separate Management:
A company is administered and managed by its
managerial personnel i.e. the Board of
Directors. The shareholders are simply the
holders of the shares in the company and need
not be necessarily the managers of the
company.
One Share-One
Vote:
Distinction between
Company and
A PartnershipPartnership
firm is sum total of persons who have come
together to share the profits of the business carried on by
them or any of them. It does not have a separate legal
entity.
A Company is association of persons who have come
together for a specific purpose. The company has a
separate legal entity as soon as it is incorporated under
law.
Liability of the partners is unlimited. However, the liability
of shareholders of a limited company is limited to the
extent of unpaid share or to the tune of the unpaid amount
guaranteed by the shareholder