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Pre-Incorporation Contracts: Legal Position and Ratification by Company
Introduction To Pre-Incorporation Contracts: Legal Position and Ratification by Company Company law rests on a simple but powerful idea: a company is a separate legal person, distinct from its promoters, directors, and shareholders. This foundational principle shapes every stage of a company’s life cycle, from conception to dissolution. One of the most legally complex stages is the period before incorporation, when business decisions must be taken, property must be arranged, professionals must be engaged, and commercial negotiations must begin even though the company itself does not yet exist in the eyes of law. It is in this transitional phase that pre-incorporation contracts arise. Pre-incorporation contracts occupy a difficult space in corporate jurisprudence because they are entered into on behalf of an entity that has no legal existence at the time of contracting. The law is therefore forced to answer a fundamental question: who is bound by a contract made for a company that is no...