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Compañía Gaditana de Negros
The Compañía Gaditana de Negros, formally Aguirre, Arístegui y Cía., was a Cádiz-based Spanish company holding the crown's asiento for supplying enslaved Africans to Spanish America from 1765 to 1779.
Companies Act 2013
The Companies Act, 2013 (कंपनी अधिनियम, 2013), Act No. 18 of 2013, is India's principal company law statute, replacing the Companies Act, 1956 with 470 sections, One Person Companies, mandatory CSR spending of 2% of average net profits, and independent-director requirements.
Companies House
Companies House is the UK's executive agency registrar of companies, established by the 1844 Act and based in Cardiff. It incorporates and dissolves limited companies, runs the free public company register and API, and is rolling out mandatory identity verification from 18 November 2025 under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023.
Companion cavalry
Companion cavalry (hetairoi, ἑταῖροι): Macedonian heavy cavalry recruited from the nobility under Philip II and Alexander the Great; eight ilai at Gaugamela with a royal agema squadron, wedge charges led from the front rank, xyston lances, and later Iranian hipparchies.
Companions of Saint Nicholas
Companions of Saint Nicholas: frightening folk figures such as Krampus, Knecht Ruprecht, and Belsnickel who punish naughty children during the saint's December 5-6 visits in Central and Alpine Europe, with Perchten as a related January tradition.
Companions of the Prophet (الصحابة)
The Companions of the Prophet (الصحابة, Ṣaḥābah) are those who met Muhammad believing in him and died upon Islam; Sunni doctrine accepts all their narrations as trustworthy.
Company
A company is a legal entity formed under law that can own property, enter contracts, and be sued in its own name, with members' liability often limited by shares.
Company (military unit)
Company (military unit): a 100–250-soldier army unit of three to five platoons, usually commanded by a captain or major; called a troop in cavalry and a battery in artillery, and the basic administrative unit of a battalion.
Company Law of 1929
The Company Law of 1929 (公司法) was promulgated by the National Government of the Republic of China in 1929 and remained in force until a 1946 revision.
Company rule in India
Company rule in India (1757-1858): governance of the subcontinent by the English East India Company from the Battle of Plassey and the 1765 Diwani of Bengal through the Regulating Act 1773, Pitt's India Act 1784, and the charter acts, ending with the Government of India Act 1858.
Company scrip
Company scrip was substitute currency, such as tokens or coupons, issued by employers and redeemable chiefly at company stores, widespread in American coal camps and British coalfields.
Company secretary
Company secretary (also corporate secretary, board secretary): senior officer handling board administration, statutory compliance, and governance advice to the board; role evolved from 1887 'mere servant' to strategic governance professional under codes like the UK Corporate Governance Code 2024.
Company store
A company store, also known as a plantation store, is a retail store owned by an employer in single-industry settlements like coal camps, often selling to captive workforces.
Comparable company analysis
Comparable company analysis, also called trading comps, is a relative valuation method that values a company by applying peer multiples, such as EV/EBITDA, from similar public companies.
Comparable worth
Comparable worth, also called pay equity or equal pay for work of equal value, is the principle that jobs of comparable value to an employer should be paid the same.
Comparative advantage
Comparative advantage, also called the law of comparative advantage, is the principle that countries gain by specializing in goods they produce at lower opportunity cost than partners.
Comparative broadcasting policy
Comparative broadcasting policy is the scholarly field that contrasts broadcasting systems and governance across countries, explaining how different societies organize, fund, and regulate broadcast media.
Comparative criminal justice systems
Comparative criminal justice systems is the study of how countries' legal systems differ in investigation, trial, and punishment, from inquisitorial and adversarial models to incarceration rates that vary sixteen-fold.
Comparative defamation case law
Comparative defamation case law is the study of how different legal systems resolve defamation, comparing burdens of proof, defenses, and damages across landmark cases like Sullivan and Lingens.
Comparative family law
Comparative family law is the comparison of family-law rules of two or more jurisdictions, covering marriage, divorce, property, and children, and differs from international family law, which handles cross-border rules.
Comparative intellectual property law
Comparative intellectual property law is the study of how copyright, patent, and trademark rules differ across jurisdictions, from first-to-file versus first-to-use trademark systems to TRIPS flexibilities.
Comparative linguistics
Comparative linguistics, also called comparative philology or genetic linguistics, is the branch of linguistics that studies related languages to establish their relationships and reconstruct common ancestors.
Comparative method
The comparative method is historical linguistics' main technique: comparing cognates across related languages to establish genetic relationships and reconstruct a proto-language's phonology, lexicon, morphology, and some syntax, relying on regular sound change and limited by time depth.
Comparative military ranks of Korea
Comparative military ranks of Korea contrasts the ROK armed forces' 계급 system with the KPA's 군사칭호 titles: US-derived ROK ranks with diamond, bamboo-leaf, star and Mugunghwa insignia versus 15 KPA officer titles including the unique taewonsu, wonsu, chasu marshal hierarchy.
Comparative mythology
Comparative mythology is the academic study comparing myths across cultures, including traditions with no contact, to explain recurring motifs such as floods and descents to the land of the dead.
Comparative politics
Comparative politics, also called comparative government, is the political science subfield studying domestic politics across countries. Distinguished by Mill-derived MSSD/MDSD designs, case studies, QCA, and synthetic control methods.
Comparative religion
Comparative religion, also called the comparative study of religion, is the academic discipline that compares religious traditions descriptively, without taking a confessional position on which is true.
Comparative statics
Comparative statics is a core method of economic theory that compares the equilibrium before and after a change in an exogenous parameter, yielding sign predictions or elasticities.
Comparative studies of constitutional monarchies
Comparative studies of constitutional monarchies examine states retaining hereditary heads of state under constitutional limits, asking whether monarchy causes stability and prosperity, a claim leading scholars actively contest.
Comparative trust law
Comparative trust law studies how trust-like fiduciary institutions, in which property is administered by a fiduciary for others, operate across legal systems, asking whether the devices used are functionally equivalent.