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Leftist Lawyer (leftistlawyer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 00:54:11 JST Leftist Lawyer

William Blake anticipated the Act that would fulfill his prophetic vision by 30 years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_Liability_Act_1855
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  Limited Liability Act 1855
  
  The Limited Liability Act 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 133) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that first expressly allowed limited liability for corporations that could be established by the general public in England and Wales as well as Ireland. The Act did not apply to Scotland, where the limited liability of shareholders for the debts company debts had been recognised since the mid-Eighteenth century with the decision in the case of Stevenson v McNair. Although the validity of the decision in that case had come to be doubted by the mid-Nineteenth century, the Joint Stock Companies Act 1856 – which applied across the UK – put the matter beyond doubt, settling that Scottish 'companies' could be possessed of both separate legal personality and limited liability. Overview Under the Act, shareholders were still liable directly to creditors, for the unpaid portion of their shares. The modern principle that shareholders are liable to the corporation was introduced by the Joint Stock Companies Act 1844. The 1855 Act allowed limited liability to companies of more than 25 members...
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  Leftist Lawyer (leftistlawyer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 00:54:11 JST Leftist Lawyer
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  We long ago established groups of humans are capable of evils that individuals alone find difficult to bear.
  Now take a group of people: (i) fix them on profit motive as their sole limiting ethical factor, (ii) place them on a board of directors, (iii) remove individual liability, (iv) shake and stir for two centuries, (v) The Fall of Man.
  
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