THE LIMITED LIABILITY ACT
18 & 19 VICTORI Æ REGIN Æ, CAP. CXXXIII.
An Act for limiting the Liability of Members of certain Joint Stock Companies,
[14th August, 1855.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to enable Members of Joint Stock Companies to limit the Liability for the Debts and Engagements of such Companies to which they are now subject : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:
I. Any Joint Stock Company to be formed under the Act of the Eighth Year of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and tena (other than an Assurance Company), with a Capital to be divided ...
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