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Winding-up

(s. 177); and in England the liquidator or provisional liquidator is to take the company's property into his custody or under his control. Voluntary Winding-up may take place (see s. 225)- (a) By effluxion of time under … go, amongst the persons having claims upon it. The term is most frequently applied to the winding-up of joint-stock companies. The property of a company is collected and distributed firstly in discharge of its liabilities, and secondly,

Committee of a Person of Unsound Mind or Idiot

committed by the Court. Separate committees may be appointed (a) of the person, (b) of the estate, and joint committees may be appointed for either or both of these purposes. See (English) Lunacy Act, 1890 (53 & … Committee of a Person of Unsound Mind or Idiot, the person to whom the care and custody of the person and estate, or either, of a person of unsound mind is committed by the Court.

Guardianship

rights and duties relating to that office have been modified in favour of the mother by the (English) Custody of Infants Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 12, (English) Guardianship of Infants Acts, 1886 (49 & … have an equal right to appoint a guardian by deed or will to act after death respectively either jointly with the survivor or otherwise, as the Court may direct. (2) Maternal.--Under the Acts of 1886 and 1925,

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Family

'family' is not to be construed in a narrow sense or meaning only a member of a Hindu joint family, S.N. Sudalaimuthu Chettiar v. Palaniyandavan, AIR 1966 SC 469: (1966) 1 SCR 450. The concept of family … person and who has not remarried, such individual and his minor sons and unmarried daughters, whether in his custody or not; and (d) where an individual and his or her spouse are both dead, their minor sons

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