 | Murray Hoffman - Equity pleading and procedure - 1824 - 437 pages
...on attachment issued for not . paying money into court under a decree. Lord Redesdale said, — That not the form of the process, but the cause of issuing it was to be considered ; if the ground of the proceeding be a debt, it is a process of debt ; if the... | |
 | Edward Erastus Deacon, Great Britain. Court of Review, Edward Chitty - Bankruptcy - 1833
...then affect the privilege of the bankrupt? In re M' Williams (a) Lord Redesdale lays down the rule, that the thing to be considered is not the form of the process, but the cause of issuing it ; and that every mode, by which a creditor can arrest a bankrupt for debt, comes within the meaning... | |
 | Edward Erastus Deacon - Bankruptcy - 1833
...then affect the privilege of the bankrupt? /« re M' Williams (a) Lord Redesdale lays down the rule, that the thing to be considered is not the form of the process, but the cause of issuing it; and that every mode, by which a creditor can arrest a bankrupt for debt, comes within the meaning of... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Edward Erastus Deacon, Great Britain. Court of Review - Bankruptcy - 1842
...117th section of the 6 Geo. 4. c. 16., and was not contemplated by the act. But Lord Rcdesdale said, " There can be no doubt that the thing to be considered is, not the form of process, but the cause of issuing it ; if the ground of the proceeding be a debt, it is a process of... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Edward Erastus Deacon, Sir John Peter De Gex - Bankruptcy - 1845
...117th section of the 6 Geo. 4. c. 16., and was not contemplated by the act. But Lord Redesdale said, " There can be no doubt that the thing to be considered is, not the form of process, but the cause of issuing it ; if the ground of the proceeding be a debt, it is a process of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847
...establish that the form of the process is not to be considered, but the cause of its issuing ; that if the ground of the proceeding be a debt, it is a process of debt ; and that if the process is to compel payment of a sum of money, it is a debt. The same views are... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846
...establish that the form of the process is not to be considered, but the cause of its issuing ; that if the ground of the proceeding be a debt, it is a process of debt ; and that if the process is to compel payment of a sum of money, it is a debt. The same views are... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1895
...pointing ont that it is not the form of the process, but the cause which is to be looked at, says : " If the ground of the proceeding be a debt, it is a...as, for instance, disobedience of some order of the Re ABM- court, where the object was not to recover a debt by means of the 8TBON« -, Ex process, the... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1903
...RHDESDALE applying the same distinction in M ! Williams' Case (1803) i Schoales & Lefroy 169, said, " There can be no doubt that the thing to be considered...form of the process but the cause of issuing it." To the same effect are ex parte Jeyes (1834) 3 D. & C. 764, ex parte Thomas (1843) 3 Mont. D. & D.... | |
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There can be no doubt that the thing to be considered is, not the form of the process, but the cause of issuing it ; if the ground of the proceeding be a debt, it is a process of debt... 
