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Stockholder

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A person who owns shares of stock in a corporation or joint-stock company.

See Mills v. Stewart, 41 N. Y. 386; Ross v. Knapp, etc., Co., 77 III. App. 424; Corwith v. Culver, 69 III. 502 ; Hirsh-feld v. Bopp, 145 N. Y. 84, 39 N. E. 817 ; State v. Hood, 15 Rich. Law (S. Ct) 186.

The owners of shares in a corporation which has a capital stock are called "stockholders." If a corporation has no capital stock, the corporators and their successors are called "members."

Civ. Code Dak. § 392.