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Official receivers
Official receivers, officers appointed by the Board of Trade under s. 66 of the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1883, to act as interim receivers and managers of bankrupts' estates, pending the appointment of trustees in bankruptcy: see...
Official liquidators
Act, 1862, s. 92. See now (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 185, replacing the (English) Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, ss. 149 et seq., where they are styled 'liquidators.
Obsolete
is punishable by three years' imprisonment and fine. For further instances, see the (English) Statute Law Revision Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 49); and see also STATUTE LAW REVISION. But however absurd and, in common language,
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New trial
New trial. If any defect of judgment happen from causes wholly extrinsic, i.e., arising from matters foreign to or dethors the record, the only remedy the party injured by it has (except formerly error coram nobis...
Nune pro tunc
leave granted at the hearing to cross-appeal against an order for a new trial, Toronto Railway v. King, 1908 AC 260. As to entering judgments and orders nunc pro tunc, see Ord. LII., r. 15.
Notice
1 Ch 643, where the Court of Appeal held that s. 93 of the (English) Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, and now ss. 79-83, and 87 of the (English) Companies Act,1929, avoided an unregistered mortgage as against a
Notes, Judge's
of Criminal Appeal [(English) Court of Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, ss. 8 and 9(a); and Criminal Appeal Rules, 1908, r. 14]. At the trial or hearing of any action or matter in the county court in which
Non est factum
Non est factum ('I never made the deed'). This was a plea by way of traverse, which occurred in debt on bond or other specialty, and also in covenant. It denied that the deed mentioned in...
Nominatim
by 'nomination' of sums payable on his death, see Friendly Societies Act, 1896, s. 56; Friendly Societies Act, 1908, s. 5; Bennett v. Slater, (1899) 1 QB 45; (English) Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893, ss. 25-27.
Payment
(i) (ii)] Payment signifies satisfaction of a claim, Parmeshri v. Atti, AIR 1958 Punj 79 (80). [Limitation Act, 1908, Art. 182(7)] Means payment in money or money's worth but does not include any payment for defraying or
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