Shares as Securities

Shares as Securities The purpose of this Master's degree thesis is to analyse the general characteristics of shares as securities with regard to amendments contained in the Act No. 90/2012 Coll., on Companies and Cooperative associations (hereinafter the "Act on Companies") and the Act No. 89/2012 Coll., the Civil Code (hereinafter the "Civil Code"). This thesis is composed of eight chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of the aforementioned topic. Chapter One introduces the term "share" from the general point of view. Furthermore, this chapter contains a brief introduction into legal history of statutes, which were governing shares. Chapter Two explains the characteristics of shares as securities. The opening part of this chapter also focuses on the legal definition of security. Subsequently, this chapter deals with the provisions of the Act on Companies concerning the definition of share and the rest of this chapter examines various attributes of share with respect to the classification of securities. Chapter Three describes an issuance of share. This chapter is concerned with the legal regulation of issuance of securities and the process of issuance of shares governed by the Act on Companies. The last part of this chapter is focused on fractional value shares, which are referred..