The Limited Liability Act 1855
WHEREAS it is expedient to enable Members of Joint Stock Companies to limit the Liability for the Debts and Engagements of such Companies to which they are now subject: 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: