Britannia Life Assurance Company Act 1841

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1841 c. ix
Year1841
ANN0
QUARTO
VICTORI&
REGINZ.
Cap.
ix.
An
Act
for
regulating Legal Proceedings
by
or
against
the
Brz'taiznia
Life
Assurance Company.
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Muy
1841.1
HEREAS
a
Number
of
Persons have formed themselves
into
a
Company or Partnership in the City of
London,
by
W
the Name and Style
of
''
The
Britannia
Life
Assrirance
Company," in order to carry on the Business
of'
making or effecting
Insurances on Lives and Survivorships, and
to
sell and purchase
Endowments for Widows, Children, and others, and Life and
other
Annuities, either immediate, deferred, or reversionary, and generally to
undertake
and
to
transact and negociate all other Matters and Busi-
ness whatever which may be in any way connected with
or
depend-
ing
on the Contingencies
of
Human Life, and which may be effected
accordiiig to Law:
And
whereas Difficulties have arisen and
may
hereafter arise in Legal Proceedings by
or
against the said Com-
pany, since by Law all the Members
for
the Time being
of'
the said
Company must be named in such Proceedings: And whereas it
is
expedient that the said Company shall be rendered capable
of
suing
and
being sued in the Name
of'
some one Individual
as
a
nominal
Party to such Legal Proceedings: May
it
therefore please Your
Majesty that
it
may be enacted
;
and be it 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 Yarlia-
ment assemblecl, and
by
the Authority
of
the
same, That in all
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