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Excerpt from Legal Phases of Farmer Cooperatives Introduction Cooperative defined Cost basis principle Organization of cooperatives Membership Cooperative pooling and operations Statutes affecting cooperatives Benefits derived from cooperatives Typical operations History of cooperatives Organizing a farmer cooperative Incorporated cooperatives Nature and characteristics Antiquity of corporations Power to create corporations Blue sky laws. Name of association Charter De facto corporations Bylaws Liability of association for promotion expenses Limitation on indebtedness Lien on stock Subscriber, stock, capital stock How stock is paid for Stock and nonstock associations Restrictions as to transfer of stock Membership - how acquired Who may become members Rights of members Termination of membership Interest in association Dissolution Expiration of charter Merger or consolidation Reorganization of associations Board of directors Compensation of directors Meetings of the board. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.