Companies Act, 2013 · Chapter II: Incorporation of Company and Matters Incidental Thereto
Section 9: Effect of registration
From the date of incorporation mentioned in the certificate of incorporation, such subscribers to the memorandum and all other persons, as may, from time to time, become members of the company, shall be a body corporate by the name contained in the memorandum, capable of exercising all the functions of an incorporated company under this Act and having perpetual succession *** with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property, both movable and immovable, tangible and intangible, to contract and to sue and be sued, by the said name.
Source: India Code (indiacode.gov.in), the consolidated text published by the Legislative Department, Government of India. Text as updated on India Code on 14 October 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 9
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Dhanasingh Prabhu v. Chandrasekar & Another
Whether the High Court was right in dismissing the complaint on the ground that the name of the partnership firm was not mentioned in the statutory notice issued by the appellant/complainant to the respondents u/s.138…