Companies Act 1862

Companies Act 1862

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 Act 2006.

Contents

Provisions

  • s 6[1] 'Any seven or more persons associated for any lawful purpose may, by subscribing their names to a memorandum of association, and otherwise complying with the requisitions of this Act in respect of registration, form an incorporated company, with or without limited liability.'
  • s 8[2] 'Where a company is formed on the principle of having the liability of its members limited to the amount unpaid on their shares, hereinafter referred to as a company limited by shares, the Memorandum of Association shall contain the following things' the third of which was 'objects for which the proposed company is to be established.'
  • s 11[3] 'The memorandum of association... shall, when registered, bind the company and the members thereof to the same extent as if each member had subscribed his name and affixed his seal thereto, and there were in the memorandum containied, on the part of himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, a covenant to observe all the conditions of such memorandum, subject to the provisions of this Act.'
  • s 12[4] stating the memorandum could be altered by special resolution, if the memorandum allowed that itself.
  • s 18[5] dealt with the effect of incorporation.
  • s 48[6]
  • s 153[7]

Under section 167 of the Companies Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict c 89) one of the functions of a liquidator was to bring criminal proceedings against directors and others who were alleged to have committed offences in relation to the company.[8]

Cases decided under the 1862 Act

  • In re Wiltshire Iron Co (1868) LR 3 Ch App 443
  • Salomon v A Salomon & Co Ltd [1897] AC 22
  • Ashbury Railway Carriage & Iron Co Ltd v Riche (1875) LR 7 HL 653

See also

Notes

  1. ^ s 7(1) CA 2006
  2. ^ s 9(2) CA 2006
  3. ^ s 33 CA 2006
  4. ^ s 617 CA 2006 now, but articles may be altered in all respects
  5. ^ s 15 and 16 CA 2006
  6. ^ now CA 2006 ss 437 and 438
  7. ^ now IA 1986 s 127
  8. ^ see In re London and Globe Finance Corporation Ltd [1903] 1 Ch 728, 734-735

References

Micklethwait, John, and Adrian Wooldridge. 2003. The company: A short history of a revolutionary idea. New York: Modern Library.


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