Paul Carrington, a prominent Dallas attorney, was born in Mexico, Missouri on September 24, 1894. He received his B.A. at the University of Missouri and his LL.B. at Harvard University School of Law, and practiced law with the firm Carrington, Johnson and Stephens in Dallas between 1919 and 1982. Carrington was active in the State Bar of Texas, serving first as Chairman of the Committee on Revision of Corporation Laws (1948-1957), and later as its President (1960-1961). He also held important positions in the American Bar Association, serving as Chairman of the ABA Section of Corporate, Banking and Business Law, 1955-1956, and as Chairman of the American Bar Foundation (1965-1966). Additionally, Carrington was an integral member of the American Bar Association Committee on Corporate Laws, a committee under the governance of the Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law.
Carrington was involved in the development of two major projects: The State Bar of Texas' revisions to the Texas Business Corporation Act and the American Bar Association's annotations to the Model Business Corporation Act. These acts established the “statutory framework for corporations, from their organization to their dissolution [see note].” In revising the Texas Business Corporation Act, the committee sought to modernize existing Texas Laws, taking the Model Business Corporation Act as their guide. The Committee on the Revision of Corporation Laws included Paul Carrington (Chairman), Adrain F. Levy Sr. (Vice-Chairman), Margaret Amsler, E.W. Bailey, Leon Lebowitz, Talbot Rain, Peyton B. Randolph, George Slover (Secretary), Robert S. Trotti, and Louis Scott Wilkerson.
The annotation project of the Model Business Corporation Act offered a comprehensive analysis of corporation law. Many distinguished attorneys, judges, and scholars contributed to the revisions and annotations of the Model Business Corporation Act. The Special Committee on Model Corporation Acts, referred to internally as the Committee on Corporate Laws, included attorneys George C. Seward of New York, Leonard D. Adkins of New York, Whitney Campbell of Chicago, and Ray Garrett of Chicago. James F. Spoerri oversaw the American Bar Foundation’s publication of the project under the title
After a long and distinguished career Paul Carrington died on June 28, 1988.
Note: Quote from “First Draft of Texas Business Corporation Act,”
Correspondence, memoranda, printed material, drafts, notes, minutes, and reports (1927-1967; 9.91 linear ft.), created or maintained by Paul Carrington document Carrington's participation in committees tasked with clarifying and standardizing corporation law. Arranged in three series—the State Bar of Texas, Committee on Revision of Corporation Laws (1927-1958; 3.17 linear ft.), the American Bar Association, Committee on Corporate Laws (1939-1965; 5.66 linear ft.), and the American Bar Association, Section of Corporation, Banking, and Business Law (1939-1967; 1.08)—the records document both the production of revisions to the Texas Business Corporation Act at the state level, and the production of annotations for the Model Business Corporation Act at the federal level.
The State Bar of Texas, Committee on the Revision of Corporation Laws series incluides three subseries: corresponsence, creative works, and general files. Correspondence (1950-1958; 1 linear ft.) concerns the meetings of the committee and illustrates their collaboration with attorneys in other states working on similar efforts to standardize state corporation laws. Creative works (1950-1955; 1.5 linear ft.) includes working papers for and comprehensive drafts of revisions to the articles of the Texas Business Corporation Act. Of note are Louis Scott Wilkerson’s epistolary reports, found in the correspondence series, on the legislative proceedings concerning the progress of the Act in the State House and Senate.
The records of the American Bar Association Committee on Corporate Laws are the most extensive and document the functions of the committee as it annotated the Model Business Corporation Act. In addition to illuminating the annotation process, the correspondence (1949-1965; 0.75 linear ft.) and working papers (1939-1964; 1.08 linear ft.) reveal the committee’s attempts to publicize the project in conference panel presentations and printed works. The subseries concerning the American Bar Foundation (1956-1965; 3.58 linear ft.) documents the culmination of the annotation project. These folio notebooks and galleys represent the final forms of the annotations preceding the publication of the
The records of the American Bar Association Section of Corporation, Banking, and Business Law contain the least amount of material and consist mainly of correspondence concerning the Uniform Commercial Code and the Model Business Corporation Act.
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Paul D. Carrington Papers, Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Donated ca. 1990.
Processed by Megan Mummey, Laurel Rozema, Bijal Patel and Simon Staats, Fall 2007. Arrangement and finding aid edited by Jennifer Cummings, 2009.
Covers working documents for article revisions for Texas Business Corporation Act; Model Business Corporation Act; materials concerning State Bar of Texas Meetings.
Covers revisions to Texas Business Corporation Act, “An Act” amending Article 3914 of Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, and an “application for reservation of corporate name.” Includes printed materials.
Covers materials for meetings of Committee on Revision of Corporation Laws, revisions to the Texas Business Corporation Act, and the Florida Business Corporation Act. Includes printed material.
Covers Revisions to articles of Texas Business Corporation Act.
Covers materials pertaining to State Bar of Texas Committee on Revision of Corporation Law meetings, the Model Business Corporation Act, revisions to the Texas Business Corporation Act. Includes printed material.
Covers Articles of Texas Business Corporation Act.
Includes two drafts of Texas Business Corporation Act—April 1951, one unbound and clean and one bound with annotations dated July 1951.
Includes draft of Texas Business Corporation Act—April 1951 with annotations dated July 1951 and the
Includes printed bound drafts of Proposed Texas Business Corporation Act (revision of October 12, 1951) with annotations.
Covers forms to appear in the Texas Business Corporation Act.
Covers the Uniform Business Corporation Act and contains 2 copies of
Covers explanatory notes for the Model Business Corporation Act Revised and comments on Wisconsin Business Corporation Law.
Covers Model for State Business Corporation Acts; Articles of Incorporation forms, Articles of Amendment of the Articles of Incorporation forms, Declaration of Paid in Capital forms, Articles of Merger forms, Application of Admission of Foreign Corporation forms.
Covers Model for State Business Corporation Acts, Model for Not for Profit Corporation Act.
Covers Code of Bylaws for the Subject Corporation, and Articles of Incorporation, and drafts of forms for Model Business Corporation Act.
Covers drafts of articles and forms pertaining to Model Business Corporation Act.
Covers Modifications to the revisions of Texas Business Corporation Act.
Covers conference on proposed Corporation Code April 18-19, 1952, revisions to and corrections list for the Texas Business Corporation Act; materials pertaining to the Texas Business Corporation Act in the State House of Representatives. Includes printed materials.
Covers conference on proposed Corporation Code April 18-19, 1952, revisions to and corrections list for the Texas Business Corporation Act; materials pertaining to the Texas Business Corporation Act in the State House of Representatives. Includes printed materials.
Covers conference on proposed Corporation Code April 18-19, 1952, revisions to and corrections list for the Texas Business Corporation Act; materials pertaining to the Texas Business Corporation Act in the State House of Representatives. Includes printed materials.
Covers Section 41-A: Consuming Asset Corporations of the Model Business Corporation Act, and suggested revisions from Committee on Business Corporations. Includes printed material.
Covers Model Business Corporation Act, Section 41-A: Consuming Asset Corporations and State Corporation Law Code, and legislative material. Includes printed material.
Covers Close Corporation Law and the Model Non-Profit Corporation Act.
Covers materials relating to San Francisco panel discussion, close corporation, and corporate donations to charity. Includes printed material.
Covers plans for annotations to Model Business Corporation Act and Model Non-Profit Corporation Act, close corporations, state business corporation laws, and memoranda on stock options, removal of directors, preemptive rights, and bankruptcy. Covers meetings of Committee on Corporate Laws. Includes printed material.
Covers transfer of stock and close corporations, as well as solicitation of support for the Annotation Project and materials concerning Chicago meetings of 1954. Includes printed material, “Oregon State Bar Committee Reports” and “Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law of the American Bar Association, Discussion of Executive Stock Options, August 24, 1953
Covers Iowa Business Corporation Act, bibliography on corporations, Annotation of Section 4(o) Indemnification of Directors and Officers of the Model Business Corporation Act, and state corporation laws, including those for Iowa, Virginia and Arkansas. Includes printed material.
Covers Section 41 of Model Business Corporation Act and Committee on Corporate Laws meetings.
Covers Case Digest Volumes I and II, Model Non-Profit Corporation Act, meetings of Committee on Corporate Laws, case documents for Illinois District Court, and Subcommittee on Annotations.
Covers Model Business Corporation Act finance provisions and material for the slide presentation “Forming a Corporation." Includes oversized materials.
Includes oversized charts and maps.
Covers Iowa Non-Profit Corporation Act, Model Business Corporation Act, American Bar Foundation Correspondence, and bibliography of Corporation Law.
Includes correspondence, minutes, memoranda for Subcommittee on Official Comments for the Model Business Corporation Act.
Covers indenture provisions, annotation of Model Business Corporation Act, long range objectives of the American Bar Association, professional ethics of American Bar Association, American Bar Foundation Special Meeting of Board of Directors, February 7, 1965. Includes printed material.
Includes Corporate Laws Annotated, Volume 1 MBCA, Section 4(o) Indemnification of Directors and Officers (1 CLA § 4 (o)), 1958; and Second Report to Sponsors concerning Annotation of the Model Corporation Acts from Special Committee on Model Corporation Acts, April 29, 1958.
Includes oversized materials.
Covers proposed Uniform Commercial Code, ABA Midyear Meeting, Chicago 1953, and court decisions from 1953. Includes a photograph and brochure.