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Arrangements between debtors and creditors

Act are regulated by s. 16 of the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, which takes the place of earlier enactments. By this section(which contains 20 sub-sections), 'where a debtor intends to make a proposal for a composition in … of proceedings in bankruptcy. The (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1883, having repealed the Act of 1869 without re-enacting these clauses, arrangements with creditors outside the law of bankruptcy became common, and in order to legalize and regulate these

Guardian

appointed or declared by court, and (iv) a person empowered to act as such by or under any enactment relating to any court of wards; Explanation.--For the purposes of this clause, any name which is not the

Working funds

is the sense in which they must be deemed to have been used by the legislature when it enacted clauses (ii) and (iii) of the proviso to Item 2 of the Third Schedule, Workmen of National & … the sense in which they must be deemed to have been used by the legislature when it enacted clauses (ii) and (iii) of the proviso to Item 2 of the Third Schedule, Workmen of National & Grindlays

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Tail

the right of barring estates-tail, prescribing and simplifying the mode of disposition. The general enabling clause (s. 15) enacts, that 'after December 31st, 1833, every actual tenant-in-tail, whether in possession, remainder, contingency, or otherwise, shall have full

purview

of a statute)] 1 : the body of a statute or the part that begins with Be it enacted and ends before the repealing clause 2 : the limit or scope of a law

Ac Etiam

the Court jurisdiction, Bouvier's Law Dict. The ac etiam clause appears to have been invented inconsequence of the enactment of 13 Car. 2, St. 2, c. 2, that the particular cause of action must be expressed in

Common Pleas, the Court of

Court (Aula Regis) as early as the reign of Richard I., and the 14th clause of Magna Charta enacted that it should not follow the King's Court, but be held in some certain place. Its jurisdiction was

Enacting formula

Matched in: Term Enacting formula

Cowper-temple clause

Matched in: Term Cowper-temple clause

Railway

locomotive power, etc. ss. 92 and 108 of the Act of 1845 make railway public highways, s. 92 enacting that 'upon payment of the tolls from time to time demandable, all companies and persons shall be entitled … is constructed and managed (1) under a local and personal Act of Parliament; and (2) under the Companies Clauses, Lands Clauses, and Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts; and (3) under the general Acts relating to railways. The (English)

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