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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Corporation (redirect from History of companies)
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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Royal charter (section Companies and societies)
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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United Kingdom insolvency law (redirect from Insolvent Debtors Act 1842)
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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Law of Bangladesh (section Company law)
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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London and Croydon Railway (redirect from London and Croydon Railway Act 1844)
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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South Eastern Railway (England) (redirect from South Eastern Railway (Ashford to Canterbury, Ramsgate and Margate Branch) Act 1844)
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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