The Law of Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Mercantile Sequestration, in Scotland, 310. raamatW. Tait, 1845 - 352 pages |
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Page 166 - That if any bankrupt, at the time he becomes bankrupt, shall, by the consent and permission of the true owner thereof, have in his possession, order, or disposition, any goods or chattels whereof he was reputed owner...
Page 268 - Sea, and all Persons using the Trade of Merchandize by way of bargaining, Exchange, bartering, Commission, Consignment, or otherwise, in gross or by retail, and all Persons who, either for themselves or as Agents or Factors for others, seek their Living by buying and selling, or by buying and letting for Hire, or by the Workmanship of Goods or Commodities...
Page 268 - ... warehousemen, wharfingers ; persons using the trade or profession of a scrivener, receiving other men's moneys or estates into their trust or custody...
Page 183 - ... has begun. The buyer, or those who stand in his place, may still obtain the right of possession if they will pay or tender the price, or they may still act upon their right of property if anything unwarrantable is done to that right.
Page 326 - Produce thereof, on due Notice given to all other Persons (if any) interested therein, to order the Assignees and all Persons whose Act or Consent thereto is necessary to convey, assign, or transfer the said Estate...
Page 230 - That all payments really and bona fide made, or which shall hereafter be made by any bankrupt, or by any person on his behalf, before the date and issuing of the commission against such bankrupt, to any creditor of such bankrupt (such payment not being a fraudulent preference of such creditor), shall be deemed valid, notwithstanding any prior act of bankruptcy by such bankrupt committed...
Page 98 - ... all executions and attachments against the lands and tenements, or goods and chattels of such bankrupt, bona fide executed or levied before the date and issuing of the fiat, shall be deemed to be valid, notwithstanding any prior act of bankruptcy by such bankrupt committed...
Page 232 - Which enacts, that if any prisoner who shall file his or her petition for his or her discharge under this act, shall, before or after his or her imprisonment, being in insolvent circumstances, voluntarily convey, assign, transfer, charge, deliver or make over any estate real or personal, security for money, bond, bill, note, money, property, goods, or effects whatsoever, to any creditor...
Page 268 - ... and all persons using the trade of merchandise by way of bargaining, exchange, bartering, commission, consignment, or otherwise, in gross or by retail, and all persons who, either for themselves or as agents or factors for others, seek their living by buying and selling, or by buying and letting for hire, or by the workmanship of goods or commodities...
Page 94 - a common person brings his action against another, and obtains judgment, issues a writ of fieri facias upon that judgment and delivers the writ to the sheriff, who, in execution thereof, seizes the goods of the defendant While the goods...