1 USC § 5 - “Company” or “association” as including successors and assigns
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identifier: "/us/usc/t1/s5"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "1 USC § 5 - “Company” or “association” as including successors and assigns"
title_number: 1
title_name: "GENERAL PROVISIONS"
section_number: "5"
section_name: "“Company” or “association” as including successors and assigns"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "RULES OF CONSTRUCTION"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)"
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# § 5. “Company” or “association” as including successors and assigns
The word “company” or “association”, when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words “successors and assigns of such company or association”, in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed.
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**Source Credit**: (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)