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Owner

property in the goods or any of the owner's rights or liabilities under the agree-ment has passed by assignment or by operation of law. [Hire-Purchase Act, 1972 (2 of 1972), s. 2 (f)] It is used with

cession

ceding : a yielding (as of property) to another: as a in the civil law of Louisiana : assignment or transfer of property rights by a debtor to a creditor b : transfer of liability by an

Equitable assigment of debt

to under-stand that the debt has been made over by the creditor to some third person, and an assignment under s. 25(6) of the Jud. Act, 1873 (as to which see CHOSE), is not necessary, Brandt v.

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Accountable receipt

& 4 Geo. 5, c. 27), ss. 2(2) and 18, the forgery of an accountable receipt, or any assignment thereof or endorsement thereon with intent to defraud, is a felony punishable with penal servitude for not exceeding

Extinguishment

could itself, properly speaking, be surrendered; but it might have been extinguished by surrender in law, or by assignment or release, Burt. Comp. 364. The doc-trine of interesse termini has been abolished by s. 149, (English) L.P.

Subscriber

a person who holds a fraction of a ticket and also a transferee of a ticket thereof by assignment in writing or by operation of law. [Chit Funds Act, 1982 (40 of 1982), s. 2(r)]

Person

as a limited company, may be a 'respectable and responsible person' within the meaning of a covenant against assignment in a lease, Willmott v. London Road Car Co., (1910) 2 Ch 525. A corporation is not a

Gift, 'transfer of property

'Transfer of property' is defined for the purposes of the Gift-tax Act as any disposition or conveyance, or assignment or settlement or delivery or payment or other alienation of property, C.G.T. v. T.M. Louiz, (2000) 7 SCC

Predecessor

in relation to a tenant or landlord, as any person through whom either respectively has derived title by assignment, will, intestacy, or operation of law.v

Priority

instrument under seal, or is otherwise made or constituted a specialty debt. The priority in legal and equitable assignments of equitable choses in action are determined accord-ing to the date of receipt of notice by the persons

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