The Company and Commercial Laws of the Transvaal: With Explanatory Notes and IndexManfred Nathan |
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... exceeding two in number , shall be chosen for the administration and management of the estate by the majority of the creditors present , whose collective debts proved shall amount to more than one - half of the whole value of all the ...
... exceeding two in number , shall be chosen for the administration and management of the estate by the majority of the creditors present , whose collective debts proved shall amount to more than one - half of the whole value of all the ...
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... exceeding £ 20 sterling , being part of the estate , or shall knowingly permit any co - trustee so to do , longer than until the first day after his receiving the same upon which it shall be possible for him or his co - trustee to pay ...
... exceeding £ 20 sterling , being part of the estate , or shall knowingly permit any co - trustee so to do , longer than until the first day after his receiving the same upon which it shall be possible for him or his co - trustee to pay ...
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... the Treasury , for the benefit of the Treasury , such sum as to it shall seem meet , not exceeding the amount of the dividend unduly detained . NOTES . Misappropriation or misapplication of the assets or dividends INSOLVENCY . 57.
... the Treasury , for the benefit of the Treasury , such sum as to it shall seem meet , not exceeding the amount of the dividend unduly detained . NOTES . Misappropriation or misapplication of the assets or dividends INSOLVENCY . 57.
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... exceeding seven years : — ( a ) If he , either before or after the making of the order of sequestration , has alienated , mortgaged , pledged , embezzled , concealed or removed anything belonging to his estate to the value of £ 10 or ...
... exceeding seven years : — ( a ) If he , either before or after the making of the order of sequestration , has alienated , mortgaged , pledged , embezzled , concealed or removed anything belonging to his estate to the value of £ 10 or ...
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... exceeding six months : : - ( a ) If he shall fail to attend before his creditors at the first , second or third meetings of his insolvent estate , or shall remain away from any adjournment of any of the said meetings without leave from ...
... exceeding six months : : - ( a ) If he shall fail to attend before his creditors at the first , second or third meetings of his insolvent estate , or shall remain away from any adjournment of any of the said meetings without leave from ...
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acceptance acceptor action aforesaid amendment amount application appointed articles of association Attorney-General authorised bank banker behalf bill of exchange Cape Colony certificate cheque claim Class Colony Commissioner complete specification copy debt declaration deemed default delivered dishonoured drawee drawer duly stamped election endorser entitled execution Field Cornet fraudulently give notice given granted hereby High Court holder imprisonment insolvent estate instrument invention issue Landdrost Letters Patent liable licence liquidation manner Market Master meeting of creditors ment months obtained Ordinance paid party patent agent Patent Office payable payment period not exceeding person plan of distribution prescribed Pretoria proceedings promissory note proprietor proved provisional purpose reasonable reference refuse Registrar of Deeds rehabilitation respect South African Republic Staatscourant stamp duty thereof thereto tion trade description Trade Marks Branch Transvaal trustee undue preference unless Volksraad
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Page 283 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
Page 220 - Where the instrument is payable at a fixed period after date, after sight, or after the happening of a specified event, the time of payment is determined by excluding the day from which the time is to begin to run, and by including the date of payment.
Page 249 - Where a banker in good faith and without negligence receives payment for a customer of a cheque crossed generally or specially to himself, and the customer has no title, or a defective title, thereto, the banker shall not incur any liability to the true owner of the cheque by reason only of having received such payment.
Page 215 - Bearer" means the person in possession of a bill or note which is payable to bearer. "Bill" means bill of exchange, and "note" means negotiable promissory note.
Page 221 - The acceptance of a bill is the signification by the drawee of his assent to the order of the drawer. The acceptance must be in writing and signed by the drawee. It must not express that the drawee will perform his promise by any other means than the payment of money.
Page 171 - If any person makes or causes to be made a false entry in any register kept under this act, or a writing falsely purporting to be a copy of an entry in any such register, or produces or tenders or causes to be produced or tendered in evidence any such writing, knowing the entry or writing to be false, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Page 222 - An acceptance to pay at a particular place is a general acceptance unless it expressly states that the bill is to be paid there only and not elsewhere.
Page 242 - Where a bill of exchange has been protested for dishonor by nonacceptance, or protested for better security, and is not overdue, any person not being a party already liable thereon may, with the consent of the holder, intervene and accept the bill supra protest for the honor of any party liable thereon, or for the honor of the person for whose account the bill is drawn.
Page 238 - Delay in making presentment for payment is excused when the delay is caused by circumstances beyond the control of the holder, and not imputable to his default, misconduct or negligence.
Page 229 - Where the bill is drawn payable elsewhere than at the residence or place of business of the drawee.