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Halsbury's Laws of Canada – Business Corporations (2026 Reissue)
This title provides practitioners – especially those who don't specialize in corporate law – with the respected guidance that they need to understand the fundamental legal principles and issues that impact the operation and obligations of Canadian business corporations.
Publication Language: English
Published: March 26, 2026
Publisher: LexisNexis Canada
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The corporation is at the centre of economic activity in virtually every business sector in Canada. Not surprisingly, therefore, the laws that govern its creation, management and dissolution can be of central concern to lawyers practising in virtually every field of law. Halsbury's Laws of Canada's comprehensive, newly revised title Business Corporations (2026 Reissue) by Maurice Coombs and Ruth I. Wahl provides practitioners – especially those who do not specialize in corporate law – with the guidance they need to understand the fundamental legal principles and issues that impact the operation and obligations of Canadian business corporations.
This title provides a clear and national narrative of the law as it relates to both the overarching framework and the specific rules set out in the various federal, provincial and territorial business corporation statutes in force across Canada. From basic principles of corporate personality and incorporation to corporate financing, the duties and liabilities of directors, shareholder remedies and corporate dissolution, this title delivers an authoritative and accessible explanation of Canadian corporate principles.
Topics covered include:
- Different classes of corporation
- Constitutional considerations and Charter issues
- Restrictions on incorporation
- Articles and by-laws
- Corporate names
- Pre-incorporation contracts
- Limited liability and piercing the corporate veil
- Separation of ownership and management
- Corporate liability
- Liability for insiders, directors, officers and others
- Criminal liability
- Corporate governance
- Board of directors
- Nature of directorship
- Appointment or election
- Corporate management
- Board decision-making
- General managerial rights
- Restrictions on directorial authority
- Delegation of managerial authority
- Duties and liabilities of directors and officers
- Duty of care
- Fiduciary duties
- Civil wrongs
- Record-keeping, auditing and disclosure
- Equity finance
- Debt financing
- Shareholder rights, obligations
- Shareholder remedies
- Oppression remedy
- Derivative actions
- Fundamental changes
- Amending the articles of a corporation
- Sale, lease or exchange of corporate property
- Amalgamation
- Take-over bids and issuer bids
- Continuation
- Winding-up and dissolution
I. The Corporate Concept
II. Constitutional Considerations
III. Incorporation
IV. Corporate Personality and Its Implications
V. Corporate Liability
VI. Corporate Governance
VII. The Board of Directors
VIII. Corporate Management
IX. Duties and Liabilities of Directors and Officers
X. Record-Keeping, Auditing and Disclosure
XI. Equity Finance
XII. Debt Financing
XIII. Shareholders and Their Rights
XIV. Shareholder Remedies
XV. Fundamental Changes
XVI. Winding-up and Dissolution
