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Simple contract
under seal. See Addison, Chitty, Leake, or Pollock on Contracts. Before 1870 simple contract debts were, in the administration of the estate of a deceased person, postponed to debts secured by instrument under seal, called 'specialty debts,'
Person of unsound mind
expressly certified still to be in that state. The Acts also authorises and provides for the management and administration of the estates and property of persons who are not detained as, and not found to be persons
Rural District Council
Rural District Council. The council of an administrative area, such as existed at the passing of the Local Government Act, 1933, forming a county district part
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Residue
kin [Executors Act, 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 40)]; repealed and replaced by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 49; see Re Glukman, (1908) 1 Ch 552; affirmed, nom. A.G. v. Jeffereys,
Record, Debts of
1st January, 1870, all specialty and simple contract debts of deceased persons stand in equal degree in the administration of the estate of any one deceased. [Administration of Estates Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 46]
Receiver
officer appointed by the court to collect rents, etc., pending a suit. Receivers are appointed in actions for administration; in actions by mortgages or against trustees or executors; in actions between partners for winding up the partnership
Reasonableness
in the changed context. Some such thing has happened to the words 'reasonable', 'reasonableness' etc. The reasonableness in administrative law must distinguish between proper use and improper abuse of power. The administrative law test of 'reasonableness' as
Priority
to priority among creditors, see (English) Admin-istration of Estates Act, 1869, reproduced by ss. 32 to 34, (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, and the First Sch., which provides that in the administration of the estate of
Prejudicial to the interests of the Revenue
interests of the Revenue, regarded as involving a conception of acts or orders which are subversive of the administration of revenue. There must be some grievous error in the order passed by the Income Tax Officer, which
Governor
India, Art. 200. The executive power including all acts necessary for carrying on or supervision of the general administration of the State vests in the Governor, Ram Jawaya v. State of Punjab, AIR 1956 SC 549 [Constitution
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