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Guarantee by Companies Act, (Engligh)

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Corporation Tax Acts

Corporation Tax Acts, means the enactments relating to the taxation of the income and chargeable gains of companies and of company distribution, including provisions relating to income tax, (English) Interpretation 1978, s. 5, Sch. 1 Halsbury's … Corporation Tax Acts, means the enactments relating to the taxation of the income and chargeable gains of companies and of company

Leeman's Acts

Leeman's Acts. (English) So called-after the introducer, Mr. George Leeman, M.P. for York City. (1) The Banking Companies (Shares) Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 29), by which contracts for sale of bank shares are

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Encampment

The act of pitching tents or forming huts as by an army or traveling company for temporary lodging or rest

Company

incorporated; or (3) in registration under the Companies Acts, 1862 and subsequent Acts, now consolidated into the (English) Companies Act, 1925 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 23). By s. 13 of the Act of 1925 (1) on … the conversion of unlimited into limited companies was allowed in 1879, and see now s. 16 of the Companies Act, 1929, that unlimited companies may be practically disregarded. But if a limited company carries on business for more

Debenture

will require to be stamped as such, Spenyer v. Inland Revenue Commissioners, (1907)1 KB 246. By the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 380, a debenture is defined as including debenture stock, bonds or other securities of a companyCompanies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, in the case of a company incorporated by Special Act, and by the Companies Act, 1929, s. 88, see infra, in the case of a company incorporated under the general powers of that

Insurance

the meaning of 'accident,' see Re Scarr, (1905) 1 KB 387; Macgillivray on Insurance Law. The (English) Assurance Companies Act,1908 (9 Edw. 7, c. 49), repeals earlier Acts and consolidates and amends the law as to all persons … to third party and motor vehicles insurance with a deposit of 15,000l. This deposit [under the (English) Assurance Companies Act, 1909, as amended by the (English) Road Traffic Act,1930, s. 42] is, upon a winding-up, not earmarked for

Joint-stock Banks

20 & 21 Vict. cc. 49 & 91; and 27 & 28 Vict. c. 32; or by the Companies Act, 1929, in substitution for previous Acts, which makes registration under it compulsory in the case of a partnership … limited to some amount fixed by the charter, generally twice the amount of their shares. Under the (English) Companies Act, the liability may be either limited or unlimited, and most banks registered under the old Companies Act of

Audit

at a general meeting. The principle of compulsory audit was first applied to companies generally by the (English) Companies Act, 1900, although certain companies, e.g., banking companies, had been the subject of similar legisla-tion form any years. The … although certain companies, e.g., banking companies, had been the subject of similar legisla-tion form any years. The (English) Companies Act, 1929, ss. 132 to 134 now provide for annual appointment of auditors and sets out their duties. Ss.

Shares in public undertakings

as well as lands and fixtures. Shares in all companies which are within the Companies Acts (see the Companies Act, 1929, s. 62), OR THE Companies Clauses Act, 1845, are personal property; and in many cases of companies … though some companies will not recognize the divisibility of a pound stock into fractions. And see s. 50 (Companies Act, 1929) and also s. 61 of the Companies Clauses Act, 1845. The expression 'shares' in a will passes

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