The Companies Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. 89) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom regulating UK company law, whose descendant is the Companies...
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The Revenue Act of 1862 (July 1, 1862, Ch. 119, 12 Stat. 432), was a bill the United States Congress passed to help fund the American Civil War. President...
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(c. 46) The Companies Acts 1862 to 1893 is the collective title of the Companies Act 1862, the Companies Seals Act 1864, the Companies Act 1867, the Joint...
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Salomon v A Salomon & Co Ltd (category United Kingdom company case law)
personality, as set out in the Companies Act 1862, so that creditors of an insolvent company could not sue the company's shareholders for payment of outstanding...
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Pacific Railroad Acts (redirect from Pacific Railway Act of 1862)
opposition to a central route. The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 (12 Stat. 489) was the original act. Some of its provisions were subsequently modified...
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Homestead Acts (redirect from Homestead Act of 1862)
for homesteading, but it was not until 1862 that the first homestead act was passed. The Homestead Act of 1862 opened up millions of acres. Any adult...
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Corporation (redirect from History of companies)
landmark 1856 Joint Stock Companies Act. This was subsequently consolidated with a number of other statutes in the Companies Act 1862, which remained in force...
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original company faced scarcely any measurable competition. The companies merged in 1708, by a tripartite indenture involving both companies and the state...
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Conscription Act, passed April 16, 1862, made any white male between 18 and 35 years old liable to three years of military service. On September 27, 1862, the...
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was allowed by the Companies Act 1862. In the House of Lords, a considerable amount of opposition existed to the idea that companies should have the advantage...
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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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The Companies (Consolidation) Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 69) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which was part of the company law of that...
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Private Company: Britain 1862–1907". Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. 33 (2): 339–378. ISSN 0143-6503. Companies Act UK company law History of companies...
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Table A (category United Kingdom company law)
introduced by the Joint Stock Companies Act 1856 (as 'Table B'), and then under its current name of 'Table A' by the Companies Act 1862. The existing form of...
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Titles Act 1896. The fourth session of the 18th Parliament of the United Kingdom, which met from 6 February 1862 until 7 August 1862. Crown Suits Act 1855...
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Sri Lanka Railways (redirect from Ceylon Railway Company’s Dissolution Act 1862)
the name Ceylon Government Railway (now Sri Lanka Railway). At the end of 1862 the Crown Agents for the Colonies accepted, on behalf of the Government of...
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for insurance companies was allowed by the Companies Act 1862. The minimum number of members necessary for registration as a limited company was reduced...
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The Petroleum Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. 66) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the safe-keeping of petroleum. The large-scale production...
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The Companies Act 2006 (c. 46) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which forms the primary source of UK company law. The act was brought...
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Works holding company collapsed. Less than 17% of the joint-stock banks formed since 1844 weathered this tumult. The Companies Act 1862 created a financial...
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Ashbury Rly Carriage and Iron Co Ltd v Riche (redirect from Riche v The Ashbury Railway Carriage Company)
outside a company (s 39 CA 2006), except as a general issue of authority of the company's agents. Incorporated under the Companies Act 1862, the Ashbury...
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Canadian corporate law (redirect from Canadian company law)
charter or special Act. When it was introduced into UK company law by the Companies Act 1862 as a matter of general application, the Canadian colonies...
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27, 1862, Virginia Legislature passed an Act to Authorize the Organization of ten or more Companies of Rangers, known as the Virginia Ranger Act. On April...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1862. 1862 (MDCCCLXII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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the body of the Act, as it had been in all previous Companies Acts. Instead, it was introduced by statutory instrument - the Companies (Tables A to F)...
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Borland's Trustee v Steel Bros & Co Ltd (category United Kingdom company case law)
all the shareholders inter se in accordance with section 16 of the Companies Act 1862.' The argument about perpetuity has no application because the rule...
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The Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux Uprising, the Dakota Uprising, the Sioux Outbreak of 1862, the Dakota Conflict, or Little Crow's War,...
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The Crystal Palace (redirect from Crystal Palace Company's Act 1856)
February 2015. After a visit to London as a tourist during the Expedition of 1862, Fyodor Dostoevsky made reference to the Palace in his travelogue "Winter...
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Railway and Dock (Lease) Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. xlvii) and the North British Railway, Port Carlisle Railway and Dock (Lease) Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. xlviii)...
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The United Kingdom company law regulates corporations formed under the Companies Act 2006. Also governed by the Insolvency Act 1986, the UK Corporate...
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