Joint-Stock Corporation
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A term ing substantially all corporations for pecuniary profit) which have a capital stock divided into shares.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A corporation whose capital is divided into shares.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
This differs from a joint-stock company in being regularly incorporated, instead of being a mere partnership, but resembles it in having a capital divided into shares of stock. Most business corporations (as distinguished from eleemosynary corporations) are of this character.