The County Court Statutes from 1846 to 1875: The Repealed Sections Being Condensed with the Sections of the Debtors' Act, 1869, the Judicature Act, 1873, and the Friendly Societies' Act, 1875, and the New Consolidated Orders, 1875, Forms, Fees, and Costs ...

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Crosby Lockwood, 1876 - 400 pages

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Page 227 - B.TTLE 1. the singular number shall include the plural, and words importing the plural number shall include the singular number, and words importing the masculine gender shall include females, and the following terms shall (if not inconsistent with the context or subject matter) have the respective meanings hereinafter assigned to them, that is to say: " The Act " shall mean the Bankruptcy Act, 1869 : " Court " shall mean the court having jurisdiction in the matter :
Page 216 - Subject to the provisions hereinafter mentioned, and to the prescribed rales, any court may commit to prison for a term not exceeding six weeks, or until payment of the sum due, any person who makes default in payment of any debt or instalment of any debt due from him in pursuance of any order or judgment of that or any other competent court.
Page 118 - Action may plead the General Issue and give the special Matter in Evidence...
Page 173 - Year from the First Day of January to the Thirty-first Day of December...
Page 244 - And judgment may be given for such one or " more of the plaintiffs as may be found to be entitled to relief, " for such relief as he or they may be entitled to, without any
Page 220 - Court, such relief, redress, or remedy, or combination of remedies, either absolute or conditional, and shall in every such proceeding give such and the like effect to every ground of defence or counter-claim, equitable or legal (subject to the provision next hereinafter contained), in as full and ample a manner as might and ought to be done in the like case by the High Court of Justice.
Page 93 - Act, shall be laid and tried in the county where the fact was or is charged to have been committed, and shall be commenced within Six calendar Months after the fact committed, and not otherwise; and notice in writing of such action, and of the cause thereof, shall be given to the Defendant One calendar Month at least before the commencement of the action...
Page 112 - That if either Party maT in any Cause of the Amount to which Jurisdiction is given to the County Courts by this Act shall be dissatisfied with the Determination or Direction of the said Court in point of Law, or upon the Admission or Rejection of any Evidence...
Page 245 - ... against him ; but the court or a judge may make such order as may appear just to prevent any defendant from being embarrassed or put to expense by being required to attend any proceedings in which he may have no interest.
Page 217 - That such jurisdiction shall only be exercised where it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the person making default either has or has had since the date of the order or judgment the means to pay the sum in respect of which he has made default, and has refused or neglected, or refuses or neglects, to pay the same.

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