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#Shareholder liability #Fedilaw #Legal
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I can follow your train of thought, Bernd.
The way you portray the opium trade and the #BritishEastIndiaCompany's (EIC) example, I do see the moral hazard. We can both agree that it was morally wrong.
I am no specialist in medieval English law, but the #EIC received a royal charter and thus was a legal company in #Britain. Owning shares in that joint-stock company was legal, so there cannot be a liability...