When majority shareholders use their voting power to deny minority shareholders their rights. Usually done to induce the minority shareholders to sell their stock at a substantial discount. … [Read more...]

Also known as the first and fourtheenth amendment right to freedom of speech, the right to express one's opinion with very limited exceptions, such as where the words are defamatory. … [Read more...]

Freight is properly the price or compensation paid for the transportation of goods by a carrier, at sea, from port to port But the term is also used to denote the hire paid for the carriage of goods on laud from place to place, (usually by a railroad company, not an express company,) or on inland streams or lakes. The name is also applied to the goods or merchandise transported … [Read more...]

A citizen's right to access to government records. This was formally made law under the Freedom of Information Act. … [Read more...]

contracts. He to whom a ship or vessel has been hired. 3 Kent, Com. 173; 3 Pardess. n. 704. 2. The freighter is entitled to the enjoyment of the vessel according to contract, and the vessel hired is the only one that he is bound to take there can, therefore, be no substitution without his consent. When the vessel has been chartered only in part, the freighter is only entitled … [Read more...]