The Joint Stock Companies Act 1857
WHEREAS it is expedient that further Provision should be made for the Incorporation and Regulation of Joint Stock Companies, and that for that Purpose the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856, should be amended: Be it therefore 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 Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: