A joint-stock company is a commercial company that we count as capital companies. Its share capital is divided into shares owned by shareholders. Shareholders are not responsible for the company's obligations and are considered persons who hold one share of a joint-stock company. A share is a security that represents a share in the company's share capital. Shareholders who hold shares receive certain rights and obligations arising from the shares. We divide the rights of shareholders into management and ownership rights. Management rights include the right to vote at the company's general meeting, the right to information, the right of shareholders to participate in the general meeting as well as to debate at the general meeting, and the right to challenge the assembly's decisions. In those rights we also include the rights of minorities, i.e. the rights of minority shareholders. In addition to management rights, shareholder rights also include ownership rights. This is the right to payment of the company's profit, i.e. the payment of dividends, the right of priority in the registration of new shares and the right to payment of a certain part of participation in the share capital if it is reduced for a certain reason. Shareholders also have the right to be paid compensation for the fulfillment of additional obligations of the company and the right to pay the company members the balance after the liquidation or the possible balance of the bankruptcy estate. In addition, there is the right of an external shareholder to appropriate compensation and severance pay in entrepreneurial contracts, the right of shareholders who resigned from the company to appropriate severance pay because the joint-stock company in which the shareholders have a stake in joined another company, as well as the right of a shareholder who voted against the decision on the restructuring of the joint-stock company in the prescribed manner that the company buys their share and pays them an appropriate compensation for it.