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Definition of Controlling interest
1. Noun. Ownership of more than 50% of a corporation's voting shares.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Controlling Interest
Literary usage of Controlling interest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Northern Pacific Railroad by Eugene Virgil Smalley (1883)
"At the same time the purchase of a controlling interest in the stock of the St.
Paul and Pacific Railroad Company was effected. ..."
2. Corporate Organization and Management by Thomas Conyngton, Helen Potter (1917)
"Consolidation by Purchase of controlling interest When it is desired to unify
the operations of two or more corporations, it may be done by the common ..."
3. Corporation Accounting by Robert Joseph Bennett (1916)
"Operating Company Purchasing controlling interest As was stated above, the holding
company is usually created for the sole purpose of buying the stock of a ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law Relating to Private Corporations in Pennsylvania by Frank Marshall Eastman (1908)
"controlling interest in Stock or Bonds to Work a Forfeiture. 1656. How Forfeiture
May be Decreed. 1657. After Final Decree of Forfeiture Auditor General to ..."
5. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"From the start it was not considered wise to follow the same proceedings adopted
in getting the controlling interest of the "National," because the purchase ..."