A treatise on the law of bankrupts, as altered and amended by statue 6 Geo. iv. c. 16, with a collection of precedents

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1825 - 80 pages
 

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Page 391 - ... any part of the property of such bankrupt before the bankruptcy...
Page 378 - And be it enacted, that if any bankrupt shall, before the issuing of the commission, have contracted any debt payable upon a contigency which shall not have happened before the issuing of such commission, the person with whom such debt has been contracted may, if he think fit, apply to the commissioners to set a value upon such debt, and the commissioners are hereby required to ascertain the value thereof, and to admit such person to prove the amount so ascertained...
Page 214 - ... if the assignees accept the same, shall not be liable to pay any rent accruing after the date of the commission, or to be sued in respect of any subsequent non-observance or non-performance of the conditions, covenants, or agreements therein contained : — And if the assignees decline the same, shall not be liable as aforesaid, in case he deliver up such lease or agreement to the lessor...
Page 224 - ... all executions and attachments against the lands and tenements or goods and chattels of such bankrupt, bond fide executed or levied more than two calendar months before the issuing of such commission, shall be valid, notwithstanding any prior act of bankruptcy by him committed...
Page 136 - That where there has been mutual Credit given by the Bankrupt and any other Person, or where there are mutual Debts between the Bankrupt and any other Person, the Court shall state the Account between them, and one Debt or Demand may be set against another...
Page 50 - Judgment shall have been recovered in such Action, every such Trader shall be deemed to have committed an Act of Bankruptcy on the...
Page 504 - Privileges and Matters therein contained, more fully and at large it doth and may appear. And Whereas the said Council established at...
Page 43 - ... that if any such trader shall file, in the office of the lord chancellor's secretary of bankrupts, a declaration in writing, signed by such trader, and attested by an attorney or solicitor, that he is insolvent...
Page 392 - Certificate thereof respectively to be filed in the Office of the Lord Chancellor's Secretary of Bankrupts, containing a full and true Account of the Name or Names of the Creditor or Creditors to whom such unclaimed Dividend or Dividends is or are...
Page 385 - ... 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...

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