Union Assurance Company Act 1838 2 Vic (NSW)

Usion ASSURANCE

Company,

Preamble.

7 Gul IV. Union Assurance Company Act.

Pew South Wales.

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VICTORIA REGINA.

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An Act to amend an Act intituled " An Act to " enable the Proprietors of a certain Company "carried on in the Town of Sydney in the " Colony of New South Wales under the name " style and firm of ' The Union Assurance " Company of Sydney' to sue and be sued in * the name of the Chairman of the said Company " for the time being and for other purposes ** therein mentioned." [17th August, 1838.]

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HEREAS by an Act of the Governor of New South Wales with

the advice of the Legislative Council passed in the seventh

year of His late Majesty intituled "An Act to enable the Proprietors "of a certain Company carried on in the Town of Sydney in the " Colony of New South Wales under the name style and firm of "<« The Union Assurance Company of Sydney' to sue and be sued "in the name of the Chairman of the said Company for the time " being and for other purposes therein mentioned" it was recited That several persons had formed themselves into a company or socicty established at Sydney under the name style or firm of "The Union Assurance Company of Sydney" for certain purposes therein mentioned And that it would be convenient and just that persons having demands against the said company should be entitled to sue some member thereof in place and stead of the whole And it was among other things enacted That all actions suits or proceed- ings to be commenced instituted or prosecuted at law or in equity against the said company should be commenced instituted or prose- cuted against the Chairman for the time being of the said company as the nominal defendant for and on behalf of the said company And it was also enacted That execution upon any decree or judgment in any action suit petition or other proceedings obtained against the Chairman for