The Stannaries Act, 1869: Edited with Notes Explanatory of Its Several Sections, and with Introductory Chapters Upon the Jurisdiction of the Stannaries Court, the Cost-book System, and Similar Matters; Also with an Appendix Containing Forms for the Formation and Regulation of Cost-book Companies and for Proceedings in Regard TheretoWildy and Sons, 1873 - 168 pages |
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Page 20 - If the name of any person is, without sufficient cause, entered in or omitted from the register of members of any Company under this Act, or if default is made or unnecessary delay takes place in entering on the register the fact of any person having ceased to be a member of the Company...
Page 21 - The register of mortgages required by this section shall be open to inspection by any creditor or member of the company at all reasonable times ; and if such inspection is refused, any officer of the company refusing the same and every director and manager of the company authorising or knowingly and wilfully permitting such refusal, shall incur a penalty...
Page 18 - Act may be had in the same manner and subject to the same conditions in and subject to which appeals may be had from any order or decision of the same Court in cases within its ordinary jurisdiction...
Page 90 - ... which is to be cancelled by the person by whom the bill is signed before he delivers it out of his hands, custody, or power.
Page 77 - ... shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to any of the punishments which the Court may award as hereinbefore last mentioned.
Page 60 - Any notice, if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of the post; and in proving such service it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter containing the notice was properly addressed and put into the post office.
Page 98 - No past member shall be liable to contribute in respect of any debt or liability of the company contracted after the time at which he ceased to be a member...
Page 21 - ... and the company and generally the Court may in any such proceeding decide any question that it may be necessary or expedient to decide for the rectification of the register...
Page 63 - Proceedings of the company, shall be conclusive evidence of the fact, without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of, or against, such resolution.
Page 116 - Master of the court, as such judge shall appoint, to show cause why he should not pay the judgment creditor the debt due from him to the judgment debtor, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy the judgment debt.