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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-consolidation-act-1908/section-78",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/8/69",
  "legislation_title": "Companies (Consolidation) Act 1908",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-consolidation-act-1908",
  "path": "section/78",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "78",
  "heading": "Execution of deeds abroad.",
  "text": "A company may, by writing under its common seal, empower any person, either generally or in respect of any specified matters, as its attorney, to execute deeds on its behalf in any place not situate in the United Kingdom; and every deed signed by such attorney, on behalf of the company, and under his seal, shall bind the company, and have the same effect as if it were under its common seal.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/8/69/section/78",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:20:55.325260+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}