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levy

a : the imposition or collection of a tax b : the seizure according to a writ of execution of real or personal property in a judgment debtor's possession to satisfy a judgment debt 2 : an

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

KB 30]. (Trustee Act, 1833, s. 8). Proceedings against any person for any act done in pursuance or execution or intended execution of any Act of Parliament, or public duty or authority, or any neglect or default

sale

the buyer receiving title when the debt has been fully paid off compare absolute sale in this entry execution sale : a sale carried out to execute a judgment under authority of a judicial officer (as a

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job control language

A programming language used to specify the manner timing and other requirements of execution of a task or set of tasks submitted for execution especially in background on a multitasking computer a

Audita querela [defendentis]

which lay for a person against whom judgment had been given, and who was therefore in danger of execution, or perhaps actually in execution, when he had matter to show that such execution ought not to have

Bill of sale

c. 31, which enacted that every bill of sale should be void as against assignees in bankruptcy and execution creditors, unless the bill or a copy thereof should have been filed in the Court of Queen's Bench

Capias ad satisfaciendum

Capias ad satisfaciendum (that you take to satisfy); called in practice a ca. sa. A writ of execution of the highest nature, inasmuch as it deprived a person of liberty, till the satisfaction awarded be made.

Charitable uses and trusts

any charitable uses, unless such gift, etc., should be made by deed (thus entirely excluding gifts by will) executed twelve months before the death of the donor and be enrolled in the court of Chancery within six

Deliverance, second, writ of

prevented by this judgment from proceeding, for he may sue out the judicial writ of second deliverance, in execution of which the sheriff must again take the goods from the defendant and deliver them to the plaintiff,

In custodia legis

the law), a term used of goods which, from having been already seized by the sheriff under an execution, or being otherwise in the custody of the law, are exempt from distress for rent. By the Landlord

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