Section LIX
Meaning of the Expression “the Court” as used in Part III of the Act.
The Joint-stock Companies Act, 1857
About this Act
An Act to make better provision for the order and good government of the Suburbs of Calcutta and of the station of Howrah.
The expression
"the Court," shall mean the principal Court having original Civil jurisdiction in the place in which the
registered Office of the Company is situate ; unless in the regulations for the management of the
Company it shall be stipulated that the said Company, if wound-up shall be wound-up by the Supreme
Court of Judicature for the Presidency in which the registered Office of the Company is situate, or, if
the registered Office is not situate within any Presidency or in the Settlement of Prince of Wales'
Island, Singapore, and Malacca, that it shall be wound-up by such Supreme Court as shall be
stipulated by such regulations, in either of which cases the word Court shall means the Supreme
Court of Judicature mentioned in such stipulation.