The Law Reports, Chancery Appeal Cases: Including Bankruptcy and Lunacy Cases, Before the Lord Chancellor, and the Court of Appeal in Chancery, 10. köide

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Page 195 - Then it is said that the case comes within the general words that it is just and equitable that the company should be wound up. The Court has often had to consider those words, and has always held that they apply only where a case is made of the same description
Page 562 - after the commencement of this Act for the purpose of carrying on any other business" [ie other than banking] " that has for its object the acquisition of gain by the company, association, or partnership, or by the individual members thereof, unless it is registered as a company under this Act.
Page 380 - No action shall be brought whereby to charge any person upon any promise made after full age to pay any debt contracted during infancy, or upon any ratification made after full age of any promise or contract made
Page 40 - maintenance, education, and advancement, and at such age, day, or time, or respective ages, days, or times, and if more than one in such parts, shares, and proportions, and charged with such annual sums of money and limitations over for the benefit of the said children, or some of them, or some of their heirs,
Page 562 - No company, association, or partnership consisting of more than twenty persons shall be formed after the commencement of this Act for the purpose of carrying on any other business" [ie other than banking] " that has for its object the acquisition of gain by the company,
Page 16 - or any part thereof, comprised or contained in any such memorial, shall be adjudged fraudulent and void against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee for valuable consideration, unless such memorial thereof shall be registered, as by this Act is directed, before the
Page 127 - shares in the bill mentioned, and that the Defendants respectively are liable to account to the bank for all such moneys, and for interest thereon at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, from the receipt by them respectively of such moneys;
Page 573 - that such last-mentioned issue should take, have, and be entitled to his, her, or their father's or mother's share or shares, as the case might be, equally between and amongst them, if more than one, share and share alike; and if but one, then
Page 381 - no action shall be brought upon any promise made after full age to pay any debt contracted during infancy, or upon any ratification made after full age of any promise or contract made during infancy.
Page 316 - the provisions of a composition shall be binding " on all the creditors whose names and addresses, and the amounts of the debts due to whom, are shewn in the statement of the debtor produced to the meetings at which the resolution has passed, but shall not affect or prejudice the rights of any other creditors.

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