F. (2d) 23, 25: "The status of 'treasury shares' is in general not made perfectly clear in the books.Some courts treat them as though they were, so to say, in suspended animation--existing, but existing only in a kind of Limbo; other courts treat them as though they were retired.
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Henry Winthrop Ballantine (1946) studied this question.