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Appropriation of payments
upon equitable principles and prima facie to the earlier debt, Mills v. Fowkes, (1839) 5 Bing NC 461; Clayton's Case, (1816) 1 Mer 605; The Mecca, 1897, AC 286. A creditor can appropriate a general payment to
Earmark
container and set aside for a purpose, i.e., may be traced. As to the appropriation of payments, see CLAYTON'S CASE. Originally, a mark upon the ear -- a mode of marking sheep and other animals, Black's Law
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Marriage settlement
are paid by the husband though the property settled may be that of the wife, see Helps v. Clayton, (1864) 17 CBNS 553. By the (English) Infant Settlement Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 43), a … Marriage settlement, an arrangement made before marriage, and in consideration of it (the highest consideration known to the law), whereby … a succession of interests in land or charging land (but in this case subject to the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1926), are settlements
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