The Law Magazine, Or, Quarterly Review of JurisprudenceSaunders and Benning, 1855 - Law |
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... discharge of whatever debt he pleases ; provided , of course , it be owing from the person by or on whose behalf the payment is made . To such an extent is this allowable , that a debt , pay- ment of which cannot be actively enforced ...
... discharge of whatever debt he pleases ; provided , of course , it be owing from the person by or on whose behalf the payment is made . To such an extent is this allowable , that a debt , pay- ment of which cannot be actively enforced ...
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... discharge of the subsequently contracted debt . This , however , Lord Kenyon would not allow , on the ground that it would be too much to say that a payment made generally was not a payment , but a deposit . Upon a similar principle , a ...
... discharge of the subsequently contracted debt . This , however , Lord Kenyon would not allow , on the ground that it would be too much to say that a payment made generally was not a payment , but a deposit . Upon a similar principle , a ...
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... discharge of the liabilities incurred by the payer himself , and the creditor is not therefore at liberty to appropriate such a payment to the discharge of a liability of 1 See , too , 1 Cooke's Bankr . Laws , 4th ed . 120 . VOL . LIV ...
... discharge of the liabilities incurred by the payer himself , and the creditor is not therefore at liberty to appropriate such a payment to the discharge of a liability of 1 See , too , 1 Cooke's Bankr . Laws , 4th ed . 120 . VOL . LIV ...
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... discharge of the private liability of the payer . Thus , in Thompson v . Brown ( Moo . & M. 40 ) , a payment made with partnership money to a person who was a creditor both of the firm and of the individual partner making the payment ...
... discharge of the private liability of the payer . Thus , in Thompson v . Brown ( Moo . & M. 40 ) , a payment made with partnership money to a person who was a creditor both of the firm and of the individual partner making the payment ...
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... discharged , and the trust - moneys subsequently paid in remain unaffected . The same principle runs through the whole account : each sum drawn out goes to discharge the earliest debt due from the banker which is remaining unpaid ; and ...
... discharged , and the trust - moneys subsequently paid in remain unaffected . The same principle runs through the whole account : each sum drawn out goes to discharge the earliest debt due from the banker which is remaining unpaid ; and ...
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