When you create a corporation, you write up a contract, which specifies the rules of the corporation; it's like a constitution for the corporation.

创建公司时,你会起草一份协议,其中规定了公司的条款,就像公司的宪法一样

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In the SIV contract, there was some language that implied that if the SIV ever went bankrupt, the bank would come back and rescue them.

结构投资公司的合同中包含着这样的条款,如果结构投资公司破产,银行会拯救他们

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