CORPORATIONS -LIABILITY OF BROKER ON MISLEADING CIRCULARS

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Abstract

The possibilities of civil and criminal liability under the recent Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 have caused considerable fear to those business groups which take part in the business of issuing and transferring corporate securities. The federal acts do subject the vendor of securities who induces sales by means of false or misleading prospectuses and circulars to a possibility of civil liability which was not present under the common law. In a recent Michigan case, the court reached substantially the objectives sought by these acts by applying the existing rules of common law in the state. This comment will attempt to show the various possibilities of liability, under the common law, of brokers who issue misleading circulars describing the securities which they sell.

Recommended Citation

CORPORATIONS -LIABILITY OF BROKER ON MISLEADING CIRCULARS, 33 Mich. L. Rev. 929 (1935).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol33/iss6/5