Joint Stock
stock held jointly, or in company. A joint stock company is a kind of partnership entered into by a in the profits of the undertaking. These shares are freely transferable without the consent of the company.
JOINVILLE (zhwang-vēl'), a small town of 4,000 inhabitants in the French department of Haute-Marne, which was formed into a principality by Henry II., and later supplied the title to the 3d son of Louis Philippe.