Reports of Bankruptcy and Company Cases Decided in the High Court of Justice: The Court of Appeal, the Privy Council, and the House of Lords...Comprising Cases Decided During the Year 1894-[1914].Sweet and Maxwell, 1900 - Bankruptcy |
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act of bankruptcy action adjudicated administration agreement allotted amount application articles of association assets assignment bank bankrupt Bankruptcy Act Beall Board of Trade capital cash claim clause Companies Act costs County Court debenture-holders debentures debt debtor decision deed defendant company depositions directors dividend entitled estoppel execution creditor executor executrix fact filed contract fraud fully paid held holders interest issued judgment jurisdiction L. J. Ch landlord liability LINDLEY liquidator Lord Justice Lord Justice FRY Manson meeting memorandum Morr Muir Mackenzie notice Official Receiver opinion ordinary shares parties payable payment person petition plaintiff preferential creditors present proceedings profits proof prospectus purchase question receiving order referred registered Registrar resolution respect right of retainer Rules section 125 shareholders sheriff Solicitors statute of Anne sub-section subrogation sufficient Syndicate tion transaction trustee in bankruptcy ultra vires VAUGHAN WILLIAMS vendor winding-up
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Page 89 - Every share in any company shall be deemed and taken to have been issued and to be held subject to the payment of the whole amount thereof in cash...
Page 437 - When registered, they shall bind the company and the members thereof to the same extent as if each member had subscribed his name and affixed his seal thereto, and there were in such articles contained a covenant on the part of himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, to conform to all the regulations contained in such articles, subject to the provisions of this act...
Page 473 - An order of the Board releasing the trustee shall discharge him from all liability in respect of any act done or default made by him in the administration of the affairs of the...
Page 246 - A winding up of a Company by the Court shall be deemed to commence at the time of the presentation of the petition for the winding up.
Page 464 - Where any goods of a debtor are taken in execution, and before the sale thereof or the completion of the execution by the receipt or recovery of the full amount of the levy notice is served on the sheriff that a...
Page 53 - ... the requisition of members, shall be dissolved ; in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week, at the same time and place, and if at such adjourned meeting a quorum is not...
Page 414 - no goods or chattels whatsoever, lying or being in or upon any messuage, lands or tenements, which are or shall be leased for life or lives, term of years, at will, or otherwise, shall be liable to be taken by virtue of any execution, on any pretence whatsoever, unless the party, at whose suit the said execution is sued out, shall before the removal of such goods from off the said premises, by virtue of such execution...
Page 337 - Demands in the nature of unliquidated damages arising otherwise than by reason of a contract, promise, or breach of trust, shall not be provable in bankruptcy.
Page 53 - ... members, shall be dissolved ; in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week, at the same time and place, and if at the adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting the members present shall be a quorum.
Page 35 - ... sale or the money paid, and retain the balance for fourteen days ; and if within that time notice is served on him of a bankruptcy petition having been presented against or by the debtor, and a receiving order is made against the debtor thereon, or on any other petition of which the sheriff has notice...