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Feme-sole. A woman not subject to the control or interference of a husband over herself or her property....
Sole trader
A feme sole trader...
Married women's property
Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of it as he pleased, with these exceptions and modifications:-1) Her freehold estate became his to manage and take the profits of during the joint lives only. After his death, leaving her surviving, it passed to her absolutely; after her death, leaving him surviving, provided that it was an estate in possession and issue who could in her it had been born during the marriage, it passed to him as 'tenant by the curtesy (q.v.) of England,' during his life, and after his death to her heir-at-law.(2) Her leasehold estate, her personal estate in expectancy, and the debts owing to her and other 'choses in action,' became his absolutely if he did some act to appropriate or reduce them into possession during the marriage, or if he survived her. If ...
Separate estate
Separate estate. The Common Law did not allow a married woman to posses any property independently of her husband, but when property was settled to her separate use and benefit, equity treated her, in respect to that property, as a feme sole, or unmarried woman. A wife's separate property might be acquired by a pre-nuptial contract with her husband, or by gift, either from the husband, or from any other person. the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882 (see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY), almost abolished the Common Law distinction between married and unmarried women in respect of property, and the amending (English) Act of 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 63) provided (s. 1) that:-1. Every contract hereafter entered into by a married woman otherwise than as agent,(a) shall be deemed to be a contract entered into by her with respect to and to bind her separate property whether she is or is not in fact possessed of or entitled to any separate property at the time when she enters into such contr...
Banking policy
Banking policy, means any policy means any policy which is specified from time to time by the Reserve Bank in the interest of the banking system or in the interest of monetary stability or sound economic growth, having due regard to the interests of the depositors, the volume of deposits and other resources of the bank and the need for equitable allocation and the efficient use of these deposits and resources. [Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949), s. 5 (ca)]Means a debtor (as an individual or organization) whose property is subject to administration under the bankruptcy laws for the benefit of the debtor's creditors was adjudicated, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 43.Means an individual who has been adjudged bankrupt and in relation to a bankruptcy order, it means the individual adjudged bankrupt by that order, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(2), 4th Edn., Para 78, p. 48.Means a person who cannot meet current financial obligations, an insolvent person; Debt...
Bankrupt
Bankrupt [fr. bancus, or banque, the table or counter of a tradesman, and ruptus, Lat., broken, denoting thereby one whose shop or place of trade is broken or gone]. A debtor who does certain acts, tending to defeat or delay his creditors, may be adjudged bankrupt, and so made liable to the bankruptcy laws. Before the (English) Bankruptcy Act,1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 134), 'traders' only were liable to be made bankrupts, other insolvent debtors being dealt with by a succession of Relief of Insolvent Debtors Acts. See INSOLVENCY.Means a debtor (as an individual or organization) whose property is subject to administration under the bankruptcy laws for the benefit of the debtor's creditors was adjudicated, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 43.Means an individual who has been adjudged bankrupt and in relation to a bankruptcy order, it means the individual adjudged bankrupt by that order, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(2), 4th Edn., Para 78, p. 48.Means a person who cann...
Executrix
Executrix, a woman appointed by a testator to perform his will. By the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 75), s. 18, a married woman appointed an executrix may sue and be sued, and may transfer stock independently of her husband 'as if she were a feme sole'; and see the further provision made by the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 18), s. 1, replaced and extended by the (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 170, by which a married woman is able to acquire and hold any interest in property real or personal either alone or jointly as a trustee or personal representative as if she were a feme sole....
Protection order
Protection order, means an order made in term of section 18. [Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005, s. 2(o)]Protection Order. 1. A wife deserted by her husband may obtain from a magistrate or the Divorce Court an order to protect property acquired and to be acquired by her since desertion, as if she were a feme sole; after the order is granted, she sues and is sued as a feme sole. The husband may apply to the magistrate who made the order, or his successor, for the discharge thereof, 20 & 21 Vict. c. 85, s. 2; 27 & 28 Vict. c. 44, s. 1; 28 & 29 Vict. c. 43 (Ireland). See DESERTION; MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY. 2. An order obtained under s. 88 of the Licensing Act, 1910, from the justices authorizing the transferee of a justices' licence to carry on business and to sell intoxicating liquors until the next licensing sessions....
Next friend
Next friend. At law, an infant having a guardian might sue by his guardian, as such, or by his next friend, though he must always have defended by his guardian. In equity he sued by next friend, and not by guardian, and defended by guardian ad litem. A married woman, before the Married Women's Property Act, could not sue either at law or inequity unless her husband were joined.Infants may sue as plaintiffs by their next friends in the manner practised before the Jud. Acts in the Court of Chancery (as to which see Dan. Ch Pr., 5th ed. p. 602), and may in like manner defend any action by their guardian appointed for that purpose by Ord. XVI., r. 16. The next friend of an infant is prima facie liable for the costs, which are, however, reimbursed to him out of the infant's estate, provided he have acted properly; but the next friend of a feme covert did not incur the like responsibility. [O. 32, r. 1, C.P.C.]A married woman had, by Ord. XVI., r. 8, of the Rules of 1875, the same right of s...
Queen consort
Queen consort, the wife of the reigning King. She is a public person, exempt and distinct from the King, for she is of ability to purchase lands and to convey them, to make leases, to grant copyholds, and to do other acts of ownership, without the concurrence of her husband. She has separate courts and offices distinct from the King's, not only in matters of ceremony but even of law; and her attorney and solicitor-general are entitled to a place within the bar of his Majesty's courts, together with the King's Counsel. She may likewise be sued and sue alone, without joining her husband; she is indeed considered as a feme sole, and not as a feme covert. See Co. Litt. 133 a; Jac. Law Dict....
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