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    The Joint Stock Companies Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 110) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that expanded access to the incorporation of...
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  • few incorporated companies existed; between 1801 and 1844, only about 100 companies were incorporated. The Joint Stock Companies Act 1844 created a centralised...
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    of companies, without specific legislation, was introduced by the Joint Stock Companies Act 1844. Initially, companies incorporated under this Act did...
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    needed] Companies Act UK company law History of companies Limited Liability Act 1855 Joint Stock Companies Act 1856 Companies (Consolidation) Act 1908 Companies...
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    The Joint Stock Companies Winding-Up Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 111) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom. Section 1 enabled a company to be made...
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    The Joint Stock Companies Act 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 47) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was a consolidating statute, recognised...
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    rejstříku). The Registrar of Joint Stock Companies was established under the Joint Stock Companies Act 1844. The Registrar of Companies for England, Wales & Scotland...
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  • 2015 The Companies Act 1965 Companies Act 1993 (originally Joint Stock Companies Act 1860) The Companies Act 1967 (Cap 50) The Companies Act 1984 The...
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    the Joint Stock Companies Act 1844. The 1855 Act allowed limited liability to companies of more than 25 members (shareholders). Insurance companies were...
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    Joint Stock Companies Act 1844, regarded as the first modern piece of company law. The Act created the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, empowered to...
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  • misrepresentation and indemnity. Sale of Goods Act, 1930 (Bangladesh) Joint Stock Companies Act 1844 "Penal Code, 1860 (Act No. XLV of 1860)". Laws of Bangladesh...
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  • companies were viewed as inefficient and dangerous. But with the industrial revolution in full swing that changed. The Joint Stock Companies Act 1844...
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    with the British East India Company in 1600 and the Dutch East India Company in 1602. The Joint Stock Companies Act 1844 was the first piece of legislation...
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    Corporate law (redirect from Companies law)
    charters of defunct companies. It was not until the Joint Stock Companies Act 1844 that the first equivalent of modern companies, formed by registration...
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    straightforward to incorporate a joint stock company following the Joint Stock Companies Act 1844, although investors in such companies carried unlimited liability...
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    Royal British Bank v Turquand (category United Kingdom company case law)
    Coal and Swansea and Loughor Railway Company. It was incorporated under the Joint Stock Companies Act 1844. The company had given a bond for £2,000 to the...
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    the Joint Stock Companies Act 1844, it was possible through a simple registration procedure to incorporate. The advantage of establishing a company as...
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    chairmanship of a Parliamentary Committee on Joint Stock Companies, which led to the Joint Stock Companies Act 1844. For the first time it was possible for...
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    Short Titles Act 1896. The fourth session of the 14th Parliament of the United Kingdom, which met from 1 February 1844 until 5 September 1844. (6 & 7 Vict...
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  • The Farmer's Joint Stock Bank was a bank that operated in Upper Canada, and later in the Province of Canada, from 1834 to 1854. Following the 1821 legalization...
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  • legislative charter for incorporation until passage of the Joint Stock Companies Act 1844. [citation needed] Case of Sutton's Hospital (1612) 77 Eng Rep...
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    only means other than an act of parliament by which a company could be incorporated; in the UK, the Joint Stock Companies Act 1844 opened up a route to incorporation...
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    Bubble Act 1720 (6 Geo. 1 c. 18), which forbade the creation of joint-stock companies without royal charter, was promoted by the South Sea Company itself...
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    s 6 and IA 1986 s 212–214 See the Joint Stock Companies Act 1844 and the Joint Stock Companies Winding-Up Act 1844. See Codex Hammurabi §§115–118; Talmud...
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    the Joint Stock Companies Act 1844 enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was later influenced by the Companies Act 1857, Companies Act 1913...
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    Harbour and Dock Company, 1 July 1839 – 3 August 1846 (joint LNWR from 28 July 1849) Preston and Wyre Railway and Harbour Company, 3 July 1835 – 1 July...
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  • "official managers" pursuant to the amendments to the Joint Stock Companies Winding-Up Act 1844 passed in 1848 - 1849. In most jurisdictions, a liquidator's...
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  • 1842 the L&CR pooled its locomotive stock with the SER, to form the Croydon and Dover Joint Committee. From March 1844 the L&BR joined the scheme and the...
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    1844, the rolling stock of the railway was pooled with that of its neighbour and operated by the 'London & Croydon and South Eastern Railways Joint Committee'...
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    Law Reports, Digest of Cases, 1882, vol 1, col 1007. "Joint Stock Companies Act Amendment Act": In re Bank of London and National Provincial Insurance...
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