Delaware General Corporation Law

The Delaware General Corporation Law (sometimes abbreviated DGCL), officially the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (Title 8, Chapter 1 of the Delaware Code), is the statute of the Delaware Code that governs corporate law in the U.S. state of Delaware. The statute was adopted on March 10, 1899. Since the 1913 reforms in New Jersey under the governorship of Woodrow Wilson, Delaware has become the mos...