# Amendment

`kaal:entity:amendment`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `amendment`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 1 works, 2017 to 2017.

**2017**

- [3017612-030](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3017612-030) [definitional/asserted] -- The articles function as the corporation's constitution and are deliberately hard to change, requiring action by both directors and shareholders unlike most corporate decisions.
  > Changing the articles is intentionally made difficult and amendments generally require actions by both the directors and shareholders, unlike most other corporate decisions.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Shareholder Agreements - National Report of the United States of America (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3017612
- [3017612-031](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3017612-031) [mechanism/asserted] -- Where a shareholder agreement is folded into the charter or bylaws, it thereby becomes subject to whatever amendment procedure those documents or the statute provide, so charter integration exposes the arrangement to later modification.
  > Because shareholder agreements are often designed to avoid corporate formalities such as majority rule, "it is not unreasonable to require that the degree of deviation intended be explicitly set out.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Shareholder Agreements - National Report of the United States of America (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3017612

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/amendment.md | sha256sum

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