Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia: Passed at the Session of 1836-37, Commencing 5th December, 1836, and Ending 31st March, 1837, in the Sixty-first Year of the CommonwealthThomas Ritchie, printer to the Commonwealth, 1837 - 338 pages |
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ACT concerning act prescribing ACT to incorporate ad quod damnum aforesaid amount appointed assembly board of public body politic by-laws capital stock cents certificates CHAP Cheat river Clarkesville Commencement commissioners common seal commonwealth county court deem divided into shares dividend duty eighteen hundred entitled exceeding February 28 February the thirteenth fifty thousand dollars force Fredericksburg further enacted Goochland hereafter associated hereby authorized hereby incorporated hereby invested hold land hundred and thirty-seven hundred dollars hundred thousand dollars impleaded incorporation of manufacturing John Lynchburg manner manufacturing and mining March 24 mining companies name and style paid pany passage passed February Passed March 30 passing thereof payment politic and corporate prescribing general regulations president and directors privileges and powers Provided purchase and hold rail-road company Real estate regulations prescribed restrictions and regulations river road separate poll stockholders subscribed subscription tion tolls town treasurer trustees turnpike road vote William
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Page 57 - Philadelphia, be, and shall be, for ever hereafter, persons able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Page 43 - The business of the partnership shall be conducted under a firm in which the names of the general partners only shall be inserted, without the addition of the word Company...
Page 42 - Such partnerships may consist of one or more persons, who shall be called general partners, and who shall be jointly and severally responsible as general partners now are by law, and of one or more persons, who shall contribute in actual cash payments a specific sum as capital to the common stock, who shall be called special partners, and who shall not be liable for the debts of the partnership beyond the fund so contributed by him or them to the capital.
Page 60 - Such of the said directors who may have been absent when the said excess was contracted or created, or who may have dissented from the resolution or act whereby the same was...
Page 42 - No such partnership shall be deemed to have been formed until a certificate shall have been made, acknowledged, filed and recorded, nor until an affidavit shall have been filed as above directed; and if any false statement be made in such certificate or affidavit all the persons interested in such partnership shall be liable for all the engagements thereof as general partners.
Page 44 - No dissolution of such partnership by the acts of the parties shall take place previous to the time specified in the certificate of its formation or in the certificate of its renewal, until a notice of such dissolution shall have been filed and recorded in the...
Page 7 - That the money which shall be in the Treasury of the United States, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, reserving the sum of five millions of dollars, shall be deposited with such of the several States, in proportion to their respective representation in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States...
Page 194 - Company" and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and to be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts of law and equity within the United States...
Page 44 - ... under the like circumstances and with the like intent, shall be void as against the creditors of such partnership.
Page 133 - State, containing but a single Court, called the " Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for the county of Henrico and city of Richmond.