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Assignee ad interim

Assignee ad interim, is an assignee appointed between the time of bankruptcy and appointment of a regular assignee, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 114....


Assignee, or Assign

Assignee, or Assign, a person appointed by another to do any act or perform any business; also a person who takes some right, title, or interest in things by an assignment from an assignor. They are divided into: (1) assignees by deed, as when a lessee of a term assigns it to another; and (2) assignees by law, as when property devolves upon an executor merely in virtue of his appointment as such. Assignees in bankruptcy (now called trustees, see BANKRUPTCY) are those persons in whom the property of a bankrupt vests by virtue of their appointment. (3) includes an assignee of the assignee and the legal representative of a deceased assignee and references to the assignee of any person include references to the assignee of the legal representative or assignee of that person. [Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), s. 2 (1) (ab)]...


Official assignees

Official assignees, certain persons from the class of merchants or accountants who were appointed by the Lord Chancellor under the Bankruptcy Acts, 1849 and 1861, to act in bankruptcies; one of whom must have been an assignee of the bankrupt's estate and effects, together with the assignee or assignees chosen by the creditors. All the personal estate, the profits of the realty, and the proceeds of all such estates as were sold were received by such official assignees alone, and paid into the Bank of England to the credit of the Accountant in Bankruptcy. these officials cease to exist under the system of bank-ruptcy introduced in 1869 but the 'Official Receivers' established by the Act of 1883 greatly resemble them....


interim

interim : an intervening time see also ad interim adj : done, made, appointed, or occurring for an interim [an disposition] ...


Assignee

Assignee, means one to whom property rights or powers are transferred by another use of the term is so widespread that it is difficult to ascribe positive meaning to it with any specification. Courts recognize the protean nature of the term and are therefore often forced to look to the intent of the assignor and assignee in making the assignment, rather than to the formality of the use of the term assignee in defining rights and responsibilities, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 114....


ad interim

ad interim [Latin, for the intervening time] : made or serving temporarily or for the time being [an ad interim committee] ...


Interim Insurance Regulatory Authority

Interim Insurance Regulatory Authority, 'Interim Insurance Regulatory Authority' means the insur-ance regulatory authority set up by the Central Government through Resolution No. 17(2)/94-Ins.- V, dated the 23rd January, 1996. [Insurance Regula-tory and Development Authority Act, 1999 (44 of 1999), s. 2(1) (e)]...


Provisional assignees

Provisional assignees, those who (under a former system of the bankruptcy law) were appointed under fiats in bankruptcy in the country to take charge of bankrupts' estates, etc., until the creditors' assignees were appointed....


Ad interim

Ad interim (in the meantime)....


Interim order

Interim order. One made in the meantime, and until something is done...


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