Act Number: 5

Act Name: The Bengal Bonded Warehouse Association Act, 1838

Year: 1838

Enactment Date: 1838-03-14

Long Title:

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 31: Individual members not to be liable.
    1* * * In order to define the liability of Proprietors or shares, and to save harmless themselves and their respective Heirs, Executors, Administrators, Representatives and Assigns, no Proprietor, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, Representatives or Assigns, shall be personally liable to any person or persons whatsoever by reason of being a Proprietor in any event, or for or on account of any acts, deeds, contracts or liabilities of the said Association, or of the Directors or Secretary thereof respectively, or under or by virtue of any judgment or decree in any action or suit, but 2* * * the party or parties having any legal or equitable demand or claim for or on the account last aforesaid, or having obtained such judgment or decree as last aforesaid, shall and may only recover the amount of such demand, claim, judgment or decree from and out of or to the whole extent of the paid up Capital, accumulated Funds, Lands, Messuages, Tenements, Hereditaments and Premises whatsoever and wheresoever, which may at the time belong to the said Association, or to which they may at the time be entitled.
Notes:
1. The words “And it is hereby enacted, that” omitted by Act 12 of 1891, s. 2 and Sch. I.
2. The words “that” omitted by Act 12 of 1891, s. 2 and Sch. I.
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