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Bill of sale

Bill of sale, an assignment by deed of chattels personal, whether absolute or by way of security. See Twyne's case, (1602) 3 Rep.

Bill of Exchange

the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, abovementioned, which, except s. 53, providing that a bill is not an assignment of funds in the hands of the drawee, assismilates the law of England and Scotland, but makes comparatively

Beneficiary

Indian Edn. (2005), p. 48. Means a person who is designated to benefit from an appointment, disposition, or assignment (as in a will, insurance policy, etc.) one designated to receive something as a result of a legal

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Banker

1623, (21 Jac. 1, c. 16), runs against the customer. See UNCLAIMED PROPERTY. A cheque is not an assignment to the payee of the customer's balance, so that if a customer having a balance of 99l. give

Attendant term

be subjected by act of law or arrangements of the owner. The advantage of preserving these terms and assigning them to trustees (thus preventing the legal presumption of surrender), with an express declaration that they shall attend

Assignee, or Assign

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

Assign

met by the defendant in his plea. The Judges are said to be assigned to take assizes. See ASSIGNMENT.

Equitable estates and interests

or an estate or interest in it vested in himself, e.g., by contract or by any conveyance or assignment which does not by law transfer or vest the legal estate or ownership in the transferee, by mortgage

Agriculture and agricultural crop

Custodian of Vested Forests, 1990 Supp SCC 785 (789): AIR 1990 SC 1747. [Kerala Private Forests (vesting and Assignment), Act, 1971 (26 of 1971)]

Act of Bankruptcy

any one of the following acts of a debtor is an act of bankruptcy:- (a) Having made an assignment of his property in trust for his creditors generally. (b) Having made a fradulent conveyance, gift, delivery, or

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