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Department of Commercial Law

The doctrine of the directing mind and will of the company and the role of corporate "personality"

Abstract

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The most famous if not the first recorded use of the phrase "directing mind and will of the company" was by Viscount Haldane in Lennard's Carrying Co Ltd v Asiatic Petroleum Co Ltd [1915] AC 705; [1914-15] All ER 280 (HL), 283C-D, hereinafter referred to as Lennard.

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Department of Commercial Law
Year dc:date.issued
1999

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Laubscher, Peter
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Blackman, Michael

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38433
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oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/38433

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Laubscher, Peter. The doctrine of the directing mind and will of the company and the role of corporate "personality". Department of Commercial Law, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38433