A Treatise on the Law and Practice of Voluntary Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors: As Adapted to the Laws of the Various States |
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... allowed to continue his business , under the supervision of a com- mittee of the creditors , for a limited time , and a cashier or clerk was also ap- pointed to receive and pay out money , the business to be done in the debtor's name ...
... allowed to continue his business , under the supervision of a com- mittee of the creditors , for a limited time , and a cashier or clerk was also ap- pointed to receive and pay out money , the business to be done in the debtor's name ...
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... allowed a large discretion in prescribing the terms upon which such preference , or indeed any benefit of the assignment should be enjoyed . The same liberality was extended to the execution of the trust , after its creation by the ...
... allowed a large discretion in prescribing the terms upon which such preference , or indeed any benefit of the assignment should be enjoyed . The same liberality was extended to the execution of the trust , after its creation by the ...
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... allowed to make assignments to trustees , as before the act , the execution of the trusts thus created is placed under the supervision of the court of probate having jurisdiction of the case ; and the estates of such debtors are ...
... allowed to make assignments to trustees , as before the act , the execution of the trusts thus created is placed under the supervision of the court of probate having jurisdiction of the case ; and the estates of such debtors are ...
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... allowed to attach the personal property of his debtor , on mesne process , and hold it as security for such judgment as he might recover . This right of attachment was founded upon early colonial laws , and its exercises be- came ...
... allowed to attach the personal property of his debtor , on mesne process , and hold it as security for such judgment as he might recover . This right of attachment was founded upon early colonial laws , and its exercises be- came ...
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... allowed feature of preference , the system of as- signment might have entirely superseded that of attachment , and , in the language of Mr. Chief Justice Parker , there could have been no reasonable complaint if it had . As it was ...
... allowed feature of preference , the system of as- signment might have entirely superseded that of attachment , and , in the language of Mr. Chief Justice Parker , there could have been no reasonable complaint if it had . As it was ...
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Common terms and phrases
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Page 471 - Every conveyance or assignment, in writing or otherwise, of any estate or interest in lands, or in goods or things .in action, or of any rents or profits issuing therefrom, and every charge upon lands, goods, or things in action, or upon the rents...
Page 752 - Now, this indenture witnesseth that the said party of the first part, in consideration of the premises, and of the sum of one dollar to him in hand paid by the said party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged...
Page 144 - Campau was said to be worth $100,000; but when the change of times came, he made an assignment of all his property for the benefit of his creditors, except the Old Congregational Church, which he deeded to his mother.
Page 56 - ... made any pledge, payment, transfer, assignment, or conveyance of any part of his property, directly or indirectly, absolutely or conditionally, for the purpose of preferring any creditor or person having a claim against him, or who is or may be under liability for him, or for the purpose of preventing the property from coming into the hands of the assignee, or of being distributed under this act in satisfaction of his debts...
Page 779 - America, to be paid to the said , or to his certain attorney, heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, for which payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves, our and each of our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
Page 468 - ... shall be from henceforth deemed and taken (only as against that person or persons, his or their heirs, successors, executors, administrators and assigns, and every of them, whose actions, suits, debts, accounts, damages, penalties, forfeitures, heriots, mortuaries and reliefs, by such guileful, covinous, or fraudulent devices and practices, as is aforesaid, are, shall, or might be in any ways disturbed, hindered, delayed, or defrauded), to be clearly and utterly void, frustrate, and of none effect...
Page 1 - It may be defined to be a transfer of the absolute or general property In a thing for a price in money.
Page 341 - All deeds of gift, all conveyances, and all transfers or assignments, verbal or written, of goods, chattels, or things in action, made in trust for the use of the person making the same, shall be void as against the creditors, existing or subsequent, of such person.
Page 745 - ... at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath granted, bargained, sold, assigned, transferred and set over, and by these presents...
Page 569 - The undertaking shall be in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100), or such greater sum as the court shall fix upon good cause shown, with at least two sufficient sureties, to be approved by the court. Unless the plaintiff files such undertaking within 20 days after service of a demand therefor, his action shall be dismissed.