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Kent Incorporated Provincially

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Kent incorporated provincially. The corporation worked with small businesses in developing graphs and charts from their data for presentation to bankers, partners, shareholders, etc. If Kent, as promoter and agent of the company, had bought the necessary equipment from Ace Computers Ltd. prior to incorporation, which of the following would be true?


A) At common law, pre-incorporation contracts are binding on the corporation, but only from the moment the corporation comes into existence.
B) Many jurisdictions have recently enacted statutory provisions preventing a corporation from ratifying pre-incorporation contracts.
C) Kent may have been able to protect himself by including a provision in the contract with Ace exempting him from personal liability.
D) A corporation is legally bound to ratify all contracts made prior to incorporation, but only if those contracts were made with the intention that the corporation be bound.
E) Kent's liability on the contract would be limited to his investment in the corporation.

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