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On May 22nd, 1974, Josemaría Escrivá arrived in Brazil, where he began his trip to several Latin American countries. The article describes the preparations and background of the two largest meetings which took place on 1st and 2nd June 1974. At the same time, the content of his message in this country is analyzed based on the content of those meetings.

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The 13th century was a period of fully social and political changing in the Kingdom of Hungary. After the Tatars' invasion new institutions were made into relief through the reconstruction process, some of them being similar to the statuses meetings in Occidental Europe. Part of historiography asserted that the initiative of congregations and provincial meetings belonged to the time kings, but there are sources to attest that during the critical moments the authority of the Crown was practically inexistent, the Roman-Catholic Church, through the agency of the Magyar bishops made efforts to keep away the country unity. That mission did not end with Carol Robert's coronation, but went away the next century. As for the social level, the same period was a decisive one for the nobility coming into being; having removing the other inhabitants from the political life, it became the main ally of the crown in the process of ruling the country. When setting as a homogeneous and representative body for the whole kingdom, nobility has its own hierarchy, with the barons at the top. Together with the great nobles they took permanently part in the country ruling whiles the rest of the nobles did it only in general meetings. Even if initially all the country inhabitants, no matter their social status, might take part in the congregations meetings, in the length of time that nobility obtained the exclusive right to organize those institutions. The same process was a decisive one in appearance of some social groups with their own interest and features, known as statutes. In spite of the well-known opinions concerning their diversity and composition, the historical sources grant the fact that the states' members were recruited from nobility. Given the lack of their representativity and their non uniform distribution along the Hungarian Kingdom, neither the ethnic nor the professional communities, as the towns and boroughs could be related to a certain status. Concomitantly with that, the largest majority of towns and boroughs were in fact set as parts of nobiliary estates and it means that their inhabitants were quite similar to the serfs' status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The subject of the present article is the recently amended article 160.f of the Capital Corporations Act, which is analysed in depth not only with respect to the new competency attributed to General Meetings in connection with essential assets, but also with regard to the very concept of an essential asset, how this can be accredited, and the consequences in law of entering into legal business in breach of the said precept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the Bombay High Court's decision in Godrej Industries Ltd. case based on the Indian Companies Act 2013 that has revised the concept of virtual shareholder meeting. Topics discussed include revision of the provisions of voting through postal ballot and electronic voting in Companies Act, concept of good corporate governance linked with the virtual shareholder meeting and Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) circulars that permitted conducting voting by postal ballot.

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The present commentary explores the contents of the Resolution from the Directorate-General for Public Registries and Notaries Public dated February 26th, 2013, with regard to the much discussed and studied question regarding the possibility that a General Meeting of Partners in a Limited Liability Partnership can be held at the second call, particularly in the case resolved through this Resolution in which the structure of the organ of governance and corporate representation comprised two joint directors and the notice of meeting was given by a representative of only one of them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We study annual general meetings of shareholders in the Netherlands. The Dutch corporate governance system is characterized by relatively concentrated shareholdings and large stakes owned by pension funds, banks and insurance companies. The legal protection of shareholders is poor due to the presence of takeover defenses, such as certificates, which deprive shareholders from their voting rights. An analysis of the minutes of 245 general meetings in the period 1998–2002 reveals that on average 30% of the equity capital is represented at the meeting. All proposals at the meeting are sponsored by the management and only 9 out of 1,583 proposals are rejected or withdrawn. Our analyses show that pension funds are the most active and critical shareholders at the meetings, while certificates effectively restrict shareholder rights. Our main conclusion is that the general meetings do not provide shareholders in the Netherlands any significant influence on management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article informs that the Ukrainian Parliament has approved Law Number 272-VIII, on March 19, 2015, that amends the Law of Ukraine on joint-stock companies aimed to reduce the quorum for general shareholders' meeting and mentions that as per the law.