piercing the corporate veil

piercing the corporate veil
Category: Business, LLCs & Corporations → LLCs, Corporations, Partnerships, etc.

Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. . 2009.


piercing the corporate veil
v. Charging normally immune corporate officers, shareholders, and so on with personal liability for the corporation's wrongdoing.
See also corporate (corporate veil).

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.

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