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interpleader

interpleader [Anglo-French enterpleder, from enterpleder, verb] : a proceeding by which a person compels parties making the same claim against him or her to litigate the matter between themselves see also bill in the nature of interpleader and bill of interpleader at bill compare counterclaim, cross-claim, impleader, intervention, joinder NOTE: When an interpleader is initiated, the person holding the property or owing the obligation that is the subject of the adverse claims usually must deposit the property or post a bond with the court. n : a person who is a party to an interpleader action ...


Interpleader

Interpleader, the process whereby a person, who is or expects to be sued by two or more parties, claim-ing adversely to each other, for a debt or goods in his hands, but in which he himself has no interest, obtains relief by procuring such parties to try their rights between or amongst themselves only. Where the applicant is a sheriff, and claim is made to goods seized in execution by any other than the person against whom the execution issued, the process is called a 'sheriff's interpleader.' At one time an independent suit in Equity, called a 'bill of interpleader,' had to be brought against the two rival claimants by the person having no interest, but the Interpleader Act (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 58), instituted a more simple and expeditious pro-cedure, whereby the Court in which such person was sued might call the rival claimants before it, and stay the action against such person; and this Act, with its amendments under the C.L.P. Act, 1860, was incorporated, but by reference only, into th...


bill in the nature of interpleader

bill in the nature of interpleader see bill ...


bill of interpleader

bill of interpleader see bill ...


bill

bill 1 : a draft of a law presented to a legislature for enactment ;also : the law itself [the GI ] ap·pro·pri·a·tions bill [ə-prō-prē-ā-shənz-] : a bill providing money for government expenses and programs NOTE: Appropriations bills originate in the House of Representatives. bill of attainder 1 : a legislative act formerly permitted that attainted a person and imposed a sentence of death without benefit of a judicial trial see also attainder compare bill of pains and penalties in this entry 2 : a legislative act that imposes any punishment on a named or implied individual or group without a trial NOTE: Bills of attainder are prohibited by Article I of the U.S. Constitution. bill of pains and penalties : a legislative act formerly permitted that imposed a punishment less severe than death without benefit of a judicial trial compare bill of attainder in this entry NOTE: The term bill of attainder is often used to include bills of p...


Interplead

To plead against each other or go to trial between themselves as the claimants in an in an interpleader See Interpleader...


Act of Bankruptcy

Act of Bankruptcy, an act, the commission of which by a debtor renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt if the petition is presented within three months thereafter.Under s. 1 of the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 59), any one of the following acts of a debtor is an act of bankruptcy:-(a) Having made an assignment of his property in trust for his creditors generally.(b) Having made a fradulent conveyance, gift, delivery, or transfer of his property, or of any part thereof.(c) Having made a conveyance amounting to a 'fradulent preference.'(d) Having, with intent to defeat or delay his creditors, departed out of England, or being out of England, remained out of England; or having absented himself; or begun to keep house.(e) If execution against him has been levied by seizure of his goods under process in any Court or in any civil proceeding in the High Court, and the goods have been either sold or held by the sheriff for 21 days:Provided that where an interpleader su...


Remitter of actions to County Court

Remitter of actions to County Court. See (English) County Courts Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo.5, c. 53), s. 45, which replaces the County Courts Act, 1919, s. 1, which took the place of the County Courts Act, 1888, s. 65. The High Court may remit to the County Court any action brought in the High Court where (1) the plaintiff's claim is founded either on contract or tort and the amount claimed or remaining in dispute does not exceed 100l., whether the counterclaim (if any) exceeds or does not exceed 100l.; or (2) the only matter remaining in dispute is a counterclaim, founded on contract or tort, not exceeding 100l; or (3) by s. 50, the plaintiff'' claim is for recovery of land, with or without a claim for rent or mesne profits, by a landlord against a tenant (or some one claiming by, through, or under him), whose term has expired or been determined or has become liable to forfeiture for non-payment of rent, and the action could have been brought in the County Court. S. 46 provides for the r...


Multiplepoinding

Multiplepoinding, a proceeding in Scotch law, of the same nature as our Interpleader....


Feigned issue

Feigned issue, a proceeding whereby an action was supposed to be brought by consent of the parties to determine some disputed right without the formality of pleading, saving thereby both time and expense. It might be ordered either by a Court of Law of Equity, or by a judge under the repealed Interpleader Act (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 58). Before the Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 109), s. 19, questions of fact were often tried by means of a pretended wager between the parties interested. But by the last-named Act, in every case, where any Court of Law or Equity desired to have any question of fact decided by a jury, the Court might direct a writ of summons to be sued out by such person as it thought ought to be plaintiff, against such person as it thought ought to be defendant, and thereupon proceedings went on as upon a feigned issue. Compare R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXIV., R. 9.A proceeding in which the parties, by consent, have an issue tried by jury without actually bringing formal action, Bla...


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