Shareholder Oppression Blog

What is stock in a corporation?Capital StockThe defining characteristic of a corporate legal structure is that its ownership is in the form of stock. The “capital...

Ownership interests in a for-profit corporation must be evidenced by a share certificate, unless otherwise provided by the governing documents of the corporation or by resolution...

Texas law recognizes “the property right which a share in such a company creates.” Yeaman v. Galveston City Co., 167 S.W. 710, 719 (Tex. 1914). In...