Neptune Marine Insurance Company Act 1841

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1841 c. xciii
ANNO QUARTO & QUINTO
VICTORLE REGIME
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An Act for regulating Legal Proceedings by or
against the Neptune Marine Insurance Com-
pany. [21st June 1841.]
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HERE AS a Number of Persons, by and under an Indenture
or Deed of Settlement bearing Date the Thirty-first Day
. of
October
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine,
have formed themselves into a Company or Partnership in the City
of London, by the Name of " The Neptune Marine Insurance Com-
pany ," and have subscribed or raised considerable Sums of Money, in
order to effect Insurances upon Ships and Vessels, Goods and Mer-
chandize, at Sea, or going to Sea, and on the Freights or Hire of
Ships or Vessels against the Perils and Dangers of the Seas and
other Marine Risks, and to carry on the Business of Insurance
Brokers, and generally to carry on the Business usually called or
known as Marine Underwriting, or the insuring of Marine Risks and
Matters connected therewith, and to lend or advance Money on
Respondentia or Bottomry Bonds : And whereas Difficulties have
arisen and may hereafter arise in Legal Proceedings by or against the
said Company, 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 should 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
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