Up To Date Business by Seymour Eaton

10. A bank must not lend more than one tenth of its capital to one

person, corporation or firm, directly or indirectly, nor lend money on the security of its own shares, nor be the purchaser or holder of its own shares unless taken as security for a debt previously contracted in good faith, and if so taken they must be sold within six months under penalty of being put in liquidation.