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Extent

Extent, the peculiar remedy to recover debts of record due to the Crown; it differs from an ordinary writ of execution at the suit of a subject, because under it the

except that the debtor can show himself to be acquitted against the said sureties.' This order of enforcing Crown debts from debtors and their sureties appears to be clear and satisfactory. It is the prerogative of the Crown … without the assent of the lord, if she hold of another.' See DOWER. The 8th chapter relates to Crown debts:-'We or our bailiffs shall not seize any land or rent for any debt, as long as the present

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Scire facias for the Crown

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Pawn or Pledge

of the debt, or by some other extinguishment of the pawnee a title, except in case of the Crown, and then subject to the pawnee's right. By the act of pawning, the pawnor enters into an implied … As to things which may be the subject of pawn: These are, ordinarily, goods and chattels; but money, debts, negotiable instruments, choses in action, and indeed any other valuable things of a personal nature, such as patent-rights

Information

to Information Act, 2005, s. 2(f)] Information in chancery. Where a suit was instituted on behalf of the Crown or Government, or of those of whom it had the custody by virtue of its prerogative (such as … 29 Vict. c. 104). The most usual information are, in cases of intrusion, for trespasses on Crown lands; debt, for Crown moneys due upon breaches of penal statutes; and in rem, when any goods are supposed to

Accountant to the Crown

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Recognisance

Recognisance, an acknowledgement of a debt owing to the Crown, with a condition to be void if the recognizor shall do some particular act, as if he, or … Recognisance, an acknowledgement of a debt owing to the Crown, with a condition to be void if the recognizor shall do some particular act,

Scire facias

of use except in Crown Practice on the Revenue side of the King's Bench Division for recovery of Crown debts and also for rescinding Crown grants and charters, etc. Scire facias on recognizances and to repeal letters patent

Order of Discharge

of which is to discharge a bankrupt from all debts, claims, or demands provable under the bankruptcy, except Crown debts, debts incurred by fraud, and certain judgments (s. 28).

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