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DISSOLVED COMPANY [9 records]

Record 1 2016-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Medical Staff
  • Indigenous Peoples
OBS

Native Physicians’ Association in Canada is a company governing under the Canada Corporations Act-Part II... It was incorporated on 18 September 1991... in Canada and as of 19 April 2015... is a dissolved company.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Personnel médical
  • Peuples Autochtones
OBS

Association des médecins autochtones du Canada : traduction non officielle donnée à titre d'information seulement.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
  • Organization Planning
  • Finance
CONT

A community contribution company is somewhere between [a non-profit company and a business company]. You can sell shares in a community contribution company. You can do business and you can own businesses, which non-profits cannot. You can distribute, in our model, 30% of any annual profits you have to shareholders, and if it is dissolved, all the assets go to the social purpose with respect to that.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
  • Planification d'organisation
  • Finances
CONT

Dans une entreprise à contribution communautaire, vous pouvez vendre des parts. Vous pouvez faire des affaires et vous pouvez être propriétaire d'une entreprise, ce qui est impossible quand il s'agit d'une entreprise sans but lucratif.

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Environment
OBS

Founded in December 1975, in Nairobi, by NGO Environment Liaison Board(ELB)... and International Assembly of NGO concerned with the Environment(INASEN), as a nonprofit company limited by guarantee under Kenyan law. ELB and INASEN were subsequently dissolved. Aims : Serve the needs of nongovernmental organizations throughout the world who are concerned about the environment...

Key term(s)
  • Environment Liaison Center
  • Environmental Liaison Center
  • Environment Liaison Center International

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Environnement

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
  • Medio ambiente
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Record 4 2009-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
DEF

A company which operates as if it were a corporation although it has not completed the legal steps to become incorporated(has no filed its articles, for example) or has been dissolved or suspended but continues to function.

CONT

A Corporation de facto or created de facto is considered to exist when one or more persons act like shareholders without having legally formed a corporation. No articles of incorporation exist and no incorporation formalities were carry out, including registration ... As a result, it is not a legal entity.

OBS

The courts temporarily treats the corporation as if it were legal in order to avoid unfairness to people who thought the corporation was legal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
OBS

Le législateur au fédéral et en Ontario rend «corporation» par «personne morale» mais celui du Nouveau-Brunswick et du Manitoba privilégie l'homographe français «corporation».

OBS

Lorsqu'on parle de société de fait dans ce cas-ci, il faut entendre une compagnie ou une personne morale qui ne remplit pas les conditions et les formalités prescrites par la loi.

Spanish

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Record 5 2008-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Cinematography
OBS

Company in Montréal dissolved in 1991.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Cinématographie
OBS

Compagnie à Montréal dissoute en 1991.

Spanish

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Record 6 2004-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
CONT

... the partnership analogy--based on the principle that in a private company, it is sometimes appropriate to apply the rules of partnership law; if it is apparent there is a division of views such that the business cannot be carried on, the company will be wound up where a partnership would be dissolved in the same circumstances...

Key term(s)
  • partnership analogy doctrine

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
CONT

Doctrine de la société (partnership analogy). Dans le cas d'une petite compagnie privée comprenant un nombre restreint d'intéressés, cette compagnie peut être comparable à une société (partnership) regroupant ces intéressés, et les circonstances qui justifieraient la dissolution d'une société peuvent suffire à convaincre la Cour qu'il est «juste et équitable» qu'elle ordonne la liquidation d'une telle compagnie.

Key term(s)
  • analogie des sociétés

Spanish

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Record 7 2003-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Records Management (Management)
DEF

Under the Companies Act, every company that has a share capital must make a return, to the Registrar of Companies, at least once a year showing the address of the registered office; an up to date copy of the shareholders register; a copy of the list of debenture holders; the share capital and debenture particulars; the list of directors; a copy of the final accounts and balance sheet. Failure to do so can result in the company being fined or struck off the Registrar of Companies and dissolved.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des documents (Gestion)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión de documentos (Gestión)
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Record 8 1997-01-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
OBS

Source(s) : c.45, s. 373.

Spanish

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Record 9 1994-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Amalgamation and Partnerships (Finance)
CONT

A person who has been granted custody of the documents, records and registers of a dissolved company shall keep them available for production for six years following the date of the dissolution of the company... [Insurance Companies Act].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Fusion, absorption et coparticipation (Finances)
CONT

La personne qui s'est vu confier la garde des documents, livres et registres de la société dissoute doit veiller à ce qu'ils puissent être produits au besoin pendant les six années qui suivent la date de la dissolution [...] [Loi sur les sociétés d'assurance].

Spanish

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