The Insolvent Act of 1875: Including Full Notes to Each Section, Tariff of Costs, Index, and List of Cases

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Willing and Williamson, 1875 - Bankruptcy - 274 pages
 

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Page 212 - ... that he had no intent to conceal the state of his affairs or to defeat the law : 10.
Page 43 - ... of any State, district, or Territory, within which such debtor resides or has property founded upon a demand in its nature provable against...
Page 138 - No lien or privilege upon either the personal or real estate of the insolvent shall be created for the amount of any judgment debt, or of the interest thereon, by the issue or delivery to the sheriff of any writ of execution, or by levying upon or seizing under such writ the effects or estate of the insolvent, if before the payment over to the plaintiff...
Page 209 - ... or the proceeds of the same, or any part thereof, or the share or interest in the stock or fund to which such power of attorney shall relate, or any part thereof...
Page 211 - ... all his property, real and personal, and how, and to whom, and for what consideration, and when he disposed of any part thereof, except such part as has been disposed of in the ordinary way of his trade (if any), or laid out in the ordinary expense of his family, unless the jury is satisfied that he had no intent to defraud : 2.
Page 234 - GH, or his certain attorney, executors, administrators, or assigns. For which payment to be made we bind ourselves, and each and every of us, in the whole, our and each of our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals, and dated this day of one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 209 - ... or the proceeds or any part of the proceeds of such security, for any purpose, or to any person specified in such direction...
Page 209 - shall include any order, Exchequer acquittance, or other security whatsoever entitling or evidencing the title of any person or body corporate to any share or interest in any public stock or fund, whether of the United Kingdom, or of Great Britain or of Ireland, or of any foreign state, or in any fund of any body corporate, company, or society...
Page 210 - ... shall affect any trustee in or under any instrument whatsoever, or any mortgagee of any property, real or personal, in respect of any act done by such trustee or mortgagee in relation to the property comprised in or affected by any such trust or mortgage ; nor shall restrain any banker, merchant, broker, attorney, or other agent from receiving any money which shall be or become actually due and payable upon or by virtue of any valuable security, according to the tenor and effect thereof, in such...
Page 140 - If a creditor holds a claim based upon a negotiable instrument upon which the debtor is only indirectly or secondarily liable, and which is not mature or exigible, such creditor shall be considered to hold security within the meaning of this section, and shall put a value on the liability of the party primarily liable thereon as being in security for the payment thereof, but after maturity of such liability and its non-payment he shall be entitled to amend and revalue his claim.

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