shareholder

shareholder
A stockholder. A participant in a business trust, occupying a relation to the trust similar to the relation of a stockholder in a corporation to the corporation. 13 Am J2d Bus Tr § 30. Broadly, one who holds or is entitled to a share in any form of enterprise or property. As to the several classes of persons who are included in the term shareholder as it is used in the Federal statute authorizing an assessment of one hundred per cent against a shareholder of a national bank, for the benefit of creditors of the bank, see McCandless v Haskins (DC SD) 20 F2d 688. See stockholder; treasury shares.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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