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voting stock rights

voting-stock rights. A stockholder’s right to vote stock in the affairs of the company. • Most commonly, holders of common stock have one vote for each share. Holders of preferred stock usu. have the right to vote when preferred dividends are in default for a specified period. [Cases: Corporations 197. C.J.S. Corporations §§ 373, 375–378.]

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bailout stock

Nontaxable preferred stock issued to stockholders as a dividend. • Bailout stock is issued to gain favorable tax rates by distributing corporate earnings at capital gains rates rather than by distributing dividends at ordinary income rates. This practice is now prohibited by the Internal Revenue Code. IRC (26 USCA)§ 306.

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special stock

Hist. Corporate stock that guarantees investors an annual dividend and gives them creditor status to the extent that dividends have become payable. • In contrast, preferred-stock holders’ claims for dividends payable are secondary to creditors’ claims. Special stock was statutorily authorized only in Massachusetts.

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