- stock corporation
- The ordinary private corporation with a capital stock divided into shares. People ex rel. Winchester v Coleman, 133 NY 279, 31 NE 96. See stock insurance company.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
stock corporation
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