Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 992.02

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Officers: when applied to corporations include directors and trustees. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01

Chapter 579, laws of 1911, entitled “An act to create section 175m of the statutes, validating instruments made to or by corporations acknowledged before notaries public who were stockholders, directors, officers or employees of the corporation, and validating other acts done by said notary,” approved July 6, 1911, and published July 7, 1911, and s. 137.03, 1931 stats. (formerly numbered 175m) are repealed.