A Concise Treatise Upon the Law of Bankruptcy: With an Appendix Containing the Bankruptcy Act, 1869; General Rules of 1870, 1871, 1873 and 1878; Forms of 1870 and 1871; Scale of Costs; Debtors Acts 1869, 1878, and Bills of Sales Acts, 1878, 1882

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Stevens and Haynes, 1883 - 633 pages
 

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Page 102 - for the price of ten pounds, or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment, or that some note or memorandum in writing of the said bargain be made, and signed
Page 187 - warehouse-keepers' certificates, warrants or orders for the delivery of goods, or any other documents used in the ordinary course of business as proof of the possession or control of goods, or authorising or purporting to authorise, either by indorsement or by delivery, the possessor of such document to transfer or receive goods thereby represented
Page 481 - (1.) If in incurring any debt or liability he has obtained credit under false pretences, or by means of any other fraud: (2.) If he has, with intent to defraud his creditors, or any of them, made or caused to be made any gift, delivery, or transfer of or any charge on his property
Page 352 - 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: 1,
Page 459 - or at any time afterwards, had any disposing power which he might, without the assent of any other person, exercise lor his own benefit, to hold to him the said goods and chattels as his proper goods and chattels, and to hold the said lands, tenements, rectories, tithes,
Page 429 - or his certain attorney, executors, administrators, or assigns. For which payment to be made we bind ourselves and each and every of us, in the whole, our and each of our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. thousand eight hundred and Sealed with our
Page 245 - and on conviction thereof shall be liable to be imprisoned for any time not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour; that is to say, "1. If he does not, to the best of his knowledge and belief, fully and truly discover to the trustee administering his estate for the benefit of his creditors all his
Page 327 - of the business, if any, and the book debts due or growing due to the bankrupt), by public auction or private contract, with power, if he thinks fit, to transfer the whole thereof to any person or company, or to sell the same in parcels: (8.) To
Page 460 - order was made], or at any time afterwards, had any disposing power which he might, without the assent of any other person, exercise for his own benefit, to hold the said goods and chattels to the said
Page 327 - agreement, or undertaking, to pay, or capable of resulting in the payment of money or money's worth, whether such payment be as respects amount fixed or unliquidated; as respects time present or future, certain or dependent on any one contingency or on two or more contingencies; as to mode of valuation capable of being

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