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legally granted or effected. [For other Forms see In re Empire Objects. Assurance Co., 4 Eq. 341.]

2. To grant or assure, life annuities, and deferred, or contingent, annuities of every description, and also endowments, marriage portions, for children and others, and any other deferred, or future, payments, provisions, and advances.

Before a company, intending to issue policies of assurance, or to grant annuities upon human life, within the United Kingdom, can be incorporated under the Act of 1862, a deposit of 20,0007. must be paid into Court. See 33 & 34 Vict. c. 61; 34 & 35 Vict. c. 58: and 35 & 36 Vict. c. 41. See also Buckley, 625, et seq., where also will be found the rules of the Board of Trade. Owing to these salutary enactments, comparatively few Life Assurance companies are now formed.

3. To acquire, by purchase or otherwise, life and other interests in real or personal property, whether in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy, and whether vested or contingent, absolute or defeasible, and whether the same or any of them are to take effect or to come into possession upon the said determination or dropping of any one or more life or lives, or on the expiration of any term or terms of years, or on any other event or events whatsoever.

4. To advance money by way of loan or security or otherwise, and generally to carry on and transact every kind of business which may be legally carried on and transacted by any life assurance, annuity, endowment, reversionary interest, and loan company.

This company, it will be observed, is not a Life Assurance company, pure and simple.

5. To purchase, &c. [Ut supra, p. 106, No. 11, taking the modified form.]

[Ut supra, p. 105, No. 8.]
[Ut supra, p. 105, No. 9.]
&c., ut supra, p. 106, No. 10].
[Ut supra, p. 108, No. 14.]
ut supra, p. 108, No. 15].
[Ut supra, p. 108, No. 17.]
[Ut supra, p. 108, No. 18.]

6. To purchase, &c. 7. To borrow, &c. 8. To [accept bills, 9. To invest, &c. 10. To [build, &c., 11. To sell, &c. 12. To do all, &c.

Objects.

Discount company.

V.

DISCOUNT.

1. To discount bills of exchange, promissory notes, and other negotiable instruments, and to make advances upon, and invest in, all kinds of securities, and generally to carry on the business of a bill discounter, bill broker, and money lender.

For other Forms, see Overend, Gurney, & Co. v. Gurney, 4 Ch. 702; and In re Barnard's Banking Co., 2 Ch. 674.

2. To purchase, &c.

3. To borrow, &c.

4. To [accept bills,

5. To purchase, &c.

modified form.]

6. To construct, &c.
7. To sell, &c

8. To do all, &c.

[Ut supra, p. 105, No. 8.]
[Ut supra, p. 105, No. 9.]
&c., ut supra, p. 106, No. 10].

[Ut supra, p. 106, No. 11, taking the

[Ut supra, p. 108.]

Ut supra, p. 108, No. 17.]

[Ut supra, p. 108, No. 18.]

Warehouse company.

VI.
WAREHOUSEMEN.

1. To carry on the trade or business of a wholesale warehouseman.

2. To manufacture, sell, deal, and trade in all goods, articles, and things usually dealt in by wholesale warehouse

men.

3. To purchase all or any part of the business and property of The Warehouse Company, Limited, and to undertake the liabilities and obligations of that company or any of

them.

4. To purchase or otherwise acquire and undertake all or any part of the business, property, and liabilities of any other company or person carrying on any business included among the objects of this company; and to take, or otherwise acquire, and hold, shares in any such company.

5. To purchase, &c.
6. To construct, &c.

7. To borrow, &c.

[Ut supra, p. 105, No. 8.]

[Ut supra, p. 108, No. 15.] [Ut supra, p. 105, No. 9.]

8. To [accept bills, &c, ul supra, p. 106, No. 10].

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1. To purchase, or otherwise acquire, and work, mines, Foreigu minerals, and mining rights, lands, hereditaments, and chat- mining tels in the state of in the United States of America,

and in particular the land, minerals, and mining rights, known as The Mine, situate near -, in the county of, in the state of in the United States of America, with the mill, orehouses, and other buildings, erected on the said land, and the plant, machinery, stock, implements, and effects used in or about or belonging to the said mine, mill, orehouses, and other buildings, together with the business of the said mine and the goodwill thereof.

2. To work the Mine and any other mines of the company, and to crush, smelt, reduce, and amalgamate the ore, and render marketable the produce and develop the resources of the same mines, and to crush, smelt, reduce, and amalgamate the produce of any mines, whether belonging to the company or not.

3. To construct, or aid in and subscribe towards the construction, maintenance, and improvement of roads, tramways, railways, docks, piers, wharves, viaducts, aqueducts, flumes, ditches, quartz-mills, saw-mills, and other buildings and works which may be necessary or convenient for the purposes of the

company.

4. To purchase, &c. [Ut supra, p. 105, No. 8, adding some more items, as " vessels," "barges," and so forth.]

5. To purchase, or otherwise acquire, and undertake, all or any part of the business, property, and liabilities of any other company engaged in mining or possessed of mining rights in the said state of

6. To borrow, &c. [Ut supra, p. 105, No. 9.]
7. To [accept bills, &c., ut supra, p. 106, No. 10].
[Ut supra, p. 108, No. 14.]

8. To invest, &c.

company.

Objects.

9. To procure the company to be incorporated in the United States of America or elsewhere.

10. To do all, &c.

[General words, ut supra, p. 108, No.

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VIII.

OYSTER AND MUSSEL.

1. To acquire, establish, and maintain oyster and mussel fisheries in the estuary of, &c., or elsewhere off the coast of the county of

Under the "Sea Fisheries Act, 1868" (31 & 32 Vict. c. 45), the Board of Trade can make provisional orders for the establishment, improvement, maintenance, and regulation of oyster and mussel fisheries. For rules issued by the Board, and specimen provisional order, see infra.

2. To form oyster and mussel beds, and to stock, cultivate, and improve the same, and for that purpose to purchase, dredge, relay, propagate, and fatten oysters and mussels.

3. To work, dredge, and develop the said fisheries, and to sell the produce thereof, and generally to carry on the business of a proprietor of oyster and mussel fisheries.

4. To purchase, &c. [Ut supra, p. 105, No. 8.]

5. To obtain any provisional order of the Board of Trade, or Act of Parliament, for enabling the company to carry its objects into effect.

[Ut supra, p. 105, No. 9.]
&c., ut supra, p. 106, No. 10].
[Ut supra, p. 108, No. 15.]
[Ut supra, p. 108, No. 17.]

6. To borrow, &c.
7. To [accept bills,
8. To build, &c.
9. To sell, &c.
10. To do all, &c.

[Ut supra, p. 108, No. 18.]

Land

company.

IX.
LAND.

1. To carry on all or any of the businesses usually carried on by Land Companies, in all their several branches, and in particular to lay out and improve, alter, and develop, by draining, clearing, road-making, or otherwise, any property of the company, and thereon to erect and construct, or assist in

the erection or construction of, any buildings or works
whatsoever, and to pull down, alter, and rebuild any existing
erections or buildings acquired by the company.

2. To purchase, &c. [Ut supra, p. 105, No. 8.]
3. To borrow, &c. [Ut supra, p. 105, No. 9.]
4. To [accept bills, &c., ut supra, p. 106, No. 10].

5. To advance money by way of loan upon any securities real or personal.

6. To receive money on deposit, &c. [Ut supra, p. 108, No. 16.]

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Objects.

X.

MARINE INSURANCE.

1. To insure against every description of marine insurance Marine risk, which may be legally undertaken, relating to perils of the insurance. seas, fire, men of war, reprisals, and all other risks of like nature incidental to the seas, ships, vessels, and craft of all descriptions, and also the freights, goods, merchandise, cargo, earnings, and property in or on board the same, whether the property of members of the company or not, so far as the same may be effected or made according to law; and also to insure all other matters and things which lawfully may or can, from time to time, be insured, or be the subject of insurance, against the perils of the sea; and generally to carry on marine insurance in all its branches.

2. To purchase, or otherwise acquire, all or any part of the business, property, and liabilities of any other company carrying on any business which this company may carry on, and generally to purchase, take on lease, hire, or otherwise acquire any real or personal property which may be convenient or necessary for the purposes of the company.

3. To borrow, &c.

4. To [accept bills,

5. To invest, &c.

6. To sell, &c.
7. To do all, &c.

[Ut supra, p. 105, No. 9.]
&c., ut supra, p. 106, No. 10].
[Ut supra, p. 108, No. 14.]
[Ut supra, p. 108, No. 17.]
[Ut supra, p. 108, No. 18.]

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