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Společnost s ručením omezeným

legal structure for a private limited liability company in the Czech Republic

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ15646299 ↗
Source-derived summary

Společnost s ručením omezeným (lit. ‘company with limited liability’) is the Czech and Slovak legal structure for a private limited company (as it is known in the United Kingdom) or a LLC (as it is known in the United States). The commercial name of a limited liability company must include the designation “společnost s ručením omezeným” (Czech) or “spoločnosť s ručením obmedzeným” (Slovak), (e.g. “limited liability company”), or in abbreviated forms, to wit: “spol. s r. o.” or “s. r. o.”.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Společnost s ručením omezeným” as legal structure for a private limited liability company in the Czech Republic. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current 81-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Společnost, ručením and omezeným can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as legal structure for a private limited liability company in the Czech Republic. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q15646299. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Společnost s ručením omezeným” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.