The Law Magazine, Or, Quarterly Review of JurisprudenceSaunders and Benning, 1855 - Law |
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... creditor by this statute were much extended by the 13 Edw . 1 , stat . 3 , c . 1 , which compelled a debtor who could not otherwise satisfy the claims upon him , to sell his land , or enabled the merchant creditor to seize and hold it ...
... creditor by this statute were much extended by the 13 Edw . 1 , stat . 3 , c . 1 , which compelled a debtor who could not otherwise satisfy the claims upon him , to sell his land , or enabled the merchant creditor to seize and hold it ...
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... creditor might have sold them for debt , a wide door for alienation had been opened by means of fictitious debts contracted by collusion between the creditor and vassal . " But , " continues the writer above named , " as times grew more ...
... creditor might have sold them for debt , a wide door for alienation had been opened by means of fictitious debts contracted by collusion between the creditor and vassal . " But , " continues the writer above named , " as times grew more ...
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... creditor by this statute were much extended by the 13 Edw . 1 , stat . 3 , c . 1 , which compelled debtor who could not otherwise satisfy the claims upon him , sell his land , or enabled the merchant creditor to seize and ho it until ...
... creditor by this statute were much extended by the 13 Edw . 1 , stat . 3 , c . 1 , which compelled debtor who could not otherwise satisfy the claims upon him , sell his land , or enabled the merchant creditor to seize and ho it until ...
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... creditors , without , however , pressing with any undue harsh- ness upon the unfortunate trader . ” " 2 The policy which has influenced modern legislation in regard to bankrupts and insolvents has , indeed , according to our deli ...
... creditors , without , however , pressing with any undue harsh- ness upon the unfortunate trader . ” " 2 The policy which has influenced modern legislation in regard to bankrupts and insolvents has , indeed , according to our deli ...
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... creditor . In his report of this case , Lord Coke takes occasion to lay down several wholesome maxims which traders would do well ( irrespectively of our existing bankrupt law ) to keep in mind : thus , he says that when any gift of ...
... creditor . In his report of this case , Lord Coke takes occasion to lay down several wholesome maxims which traders would do well ( irrespectively of our existing bankrupt law ) to keep in mind : thus , he says that when any gift of ...
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Page 287 - ... he may be examined upon oath touching his estate and effects and the manner and circumstances under which he contracted the debt or incurred the damages or liability which is the subject of the action in which judgment has been obtained against him, and as to the means and expectations he then had and as to the property and means he still hath of discharging the said debt or damages or liability, and as to the disposal he may have made of any property...
Page 276 - That on complaint and request in writing by or on behalf of any person committed and charged with any crime (unless committed for treason or felony expressed in the warrant; or as accessory, or on suspicion of being accessory, before the fact, to any petit treason or felony; or upon suspicion of such...
Page 384 - Act annexed (on which judgment no proceeding in error is to lie), for any sum not exceeding the sum indorsed on the writ, together with interest at the rate specified (if any) to the date of the judgment; and a sum for costs to be fixed by the...
Page 389 - After judgment, the Court, or a Judge may, under special circumstances, set aside the judgment, and, if necessary, stay or set asid'e execution, and may give leave to appear to the...
Page 288 - Court, that the party so summoned has then, or has had since the judgment obtained against him, sufficient means and ability to pay the debt, or damages, or costs so recovered...
Page 169 - First, cases in which the party charged has had actual notice that the property in dispute was in fact charged, incumbered, or in some way affected, and the Court has thereupon bound him with constructive notice of facts and instruments, to a knowledge of which he would have been led by an inquiry after the charge, incumbrance, or other circumstance affecting the property of which he had actual notice...
Page 13 - From that time we all know the great study has been to find some certain general principles, which shall be known to all mankind, not only to rule the particular case then under consideration, but to serve as a guide for the future. Most of us have heard these principles stated, reasoned upon, enlarged, and explained, till we have been lost in admiration at the strength and stretch of the human understanding...