Cases in Bankruptcy: Containing Reports of Cases Decided by Lord Chancellor Eldon : from Easter Term, 1810 to the Sittings After Trinity Term, [1816], Inclusive, and Contemporaneous Cases in Other Courts, 1. köideCharles Hunter, 1821 |
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Acceptances Account Act of Bank Act of Bankruptcy Act of Parliament Action admitted Affidavit Amount Annuity applied Bankers bert Smith Bills of Exchange Bond Cash Certificate Choice of Assignees Commis Commission issued Commission of Bankrupt Commissioners Cooke's B. L. Costs Court declared Deed Defendant delivered directed discharged discounted ditors Dividends Effects Ex parte.-In Execution Ground Hart indorsed Interest James Cuthbert John Stein joint Creditors Judgment Jurisdiction liable Lien LINCOLN'S INN HALL London Lord CHANCELLOR Lord ELLENBOROUGH Lordship ment mission Money Montagu Objection obtained Order paid parte.-In the Matter Parties Partner Partnership Payment Person Peti Petitioners petitioning Creditor Plaintiff prayed Proceedings Proceeds Proof Property Purpose Question received refused remitted Robert Stein rupt ruptcy Sale Scotland Seal Security separate Commission separate Creditors separate Estate Sequestration short Bills signees sion sioners Sir Samuel Romilly Smith Solicitor Statute superseded tion tition Trade Trustees Vide Ex
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Page xv - ... such bankrupt, notice of any act of bankruptcy by such bankrupt committed, or that he was insolvent, or had stopped payment...
Page 190 - ... and that the dividends, interest, and produce, thereof, as the same became due and payable, should be paid by them from time to time into his own proper hands, or on his proper order and receipt, subscribed with his own proper hand, to the intent the same should not be grantable, transferable, or otherwise assignable, by way of anticipation of any unreceived payment or payments...
Page 165 - Surety, who shall afterwards become Bankrupt, within the true Intent and Meaning of the several Statutes made and now in force concerning Bankrupts...
Page xv - Any person liable as bail, surety, guarantor, or otherwise for the bankrupt, who shall have paid the debt or any part thereof in discharge of the whole, shall be entitled to prove such debt, or to stand in the place of the creditor if...
Page 33 - ... signed, sealed, and published, in the presence of, and attested by, three or more credible witnesses...
Page xv - ... to prove his demand in respect of such payment as a debt under the commission, not disturbing the former dividends, and may receive dividends with the other creditors...
Page 146 - Burrough as not to break in upon his claim. That they were not written short amounts to nothing, unless there be a concurrence manifested at the time, or to be inferred from the habits of dealing between the parties, that they were to be considered...
Page 500 - A., induced by the fraudulent representations of B., as to the profits of his business, gives him a certain sum of money for a share of it ; on the discovery of the fraud, A. files a bill in equity for an account to have the partnership declared void, and for a receiver. The receiver was ordered; B. becomes bankrupt; petition by A. to be admitted to prove under his commission, refused, with liberty to make a claim.
Page 70 - The deduction of a security is never to be made in bankruptcy but when it is the property of the bankrupt ; it is said that it must be so considered in this case, as the house in Demerara and that in Liverpool were partners ; but it is quite familiar, that the same firm may be in one character drawers, and in another acceptors ; and the question, whether the mortgage is the property of the firm, must be met in another way.