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... debt " ( Henley's B. L. 33 ) . The following are the acts of bankruptcy which possess that character indepen- dently of the intention of the bankrupt : 1st , Where a trader arrested for debt , or on any attachment for non - payment of ...
... debt " ( Henley's B. L. 33 ) . The following are the acts of bankruptcy which possess that character indepen- dently of the intention of the bankrupt : 1st , Where a trader arrested for debt , or on any attachment for non - payment of ...
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... debt , and of his belief that the debtor has become bank- rupt ; and affidavits are otherwise extensively employed , in the bankrupt codes of the three kingdoms . By 5 & 6 Wm . IV . c . 62 , § 13 , it is unlawful " for any justice of ...
... debt , and of his belief that the debtor has become bank- rupt ; and affidavits are otherwise extensively employed , in the bankrupt codes of the three kingdoms . By 5 & 6 Wm . IV . c . 62 , § 13 , it is unlawful " for any justice of ...
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... debt , or make over the property arrested to the arrester's debtor , he becomes liable for the debt . This process has of late been materially facilitated by the act 1 & 2 Vict . c . 114 . ARROBA , a Spanish and Portuguese weight ; also ...
... debt , or make over the property arrested to the arrester's debtor , he becomes liable for the debt . This process has of late been materially facilitated by the act 1 & 2 Vict . c . 114 . ARROBA , a Spanish and Portuguese weight ; also ...
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... debt due in Scotland , produced in a competition with creditors arresting the fund , will be ineffectual without intimation or something equivalent . " A formal notice , attested by a notary public , is not always necessary ...
... debt due in Scotland , produced in a competition with creditors arresting the fund , will be ineffectual without intimation or something equivalent . " A formal notice , attested by a notary public , is not always necessary ...
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... debt . Section 6. Bank of England notes are a legal tender ( except with respect to the bank itself ) so long as the bank shall pay such notes in coin . Section 7. Bills not having more than three months to run not subject to the usury ...
... debt . Section 6. Bank of England notes are a legal tender ( except with respect to the bank itself ) so long as the bank shall pay such notes in coin . Section 7. Bills not having more than three months to run not subject to the usury ...
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Page 202 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment...
Page 268 - And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation...
Page 447 - ... all actions of account, and upon the case, other than such accounts as concern the trade of merchandise between merchant and merchant, their factors or servants, all actions of debt grounded upon any lending or contract without specialty...
Page 348 - Car. 2. c. 3. § 4., enacts, that " no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator, upon any special promise, to answer damages out of his own estate, or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 99 - This is no denial of the mathematical proposition that the whole is equal to the sum of all its parts...
Page 202 - That * * * no contract for the sale of any goods, wares and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer...
Page 202 - ... unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought or some memorandum or note thereof shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith or some other person thereunto...
Page 452 - ... and shall have employed or shall employ any persons to compose the same, or any volumes, parts, essays, articles or portions thereof, for publication in or as part of the same...
Page 9 - ... or cause or allow to be received, any oath, affidavit or solemn affirmation touching any matter or thing whereof such justice or other person hath not jurisdiction or cognizance by some statute in force at the time being.
Page 68 - ... committed; provided the person or persons so dealing with such bankrupt, or at •whose suit or on whose account such execution or attachment shall have issued, had not at the time of such contract, dealing, or transaction, or at the time of executing or levying such execution or attachment, notice of any prior act of bankruptcy by him committed...