The Joint Stock Companies Arrangement Act 1870
An Act to facilitate compromises and arrangements between creditors and shareholders of Joint Stock and other Companies in Liquidation. [10th August 1870.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to the liquidation of joint stock and other companies: 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 Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: