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lien

to retain the property until the amount due is paid charging lien : a lien attaching to a judgment or recovery awarded to a plaintiff and securing payment of the plaintiff's attorney's fees and expenses called also … the taxes assessed to pay for the improvement attachment lien : a lien acquired on property by a creditor upon levy of an attachment car·ri·er's lien : a lien against freight conferring on the carrier the right

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Attachment of debts

as amended by (English) R.S. C. July, 1902, r. 12, and R. S.C. July, 1905, r. 8, a judgment creditor may apply ex parte to the Court or a judge (r. 1), either before or after any oral … a judge, or an officer of the Court, to show cause why he should not pay to the judgment creditor the debt due from him (the garnishee) to the judgment debtor or so much thereof as may be

Retainer of debts

before the costs of all parties, including the plaintiff (see EXECUTOR). The right is not affected by a judgment for administration [Re Barrett, (1889) 43 Ch D 70], nor by payment in to Court, Richmond v. White, … Retainer of debts. An executor or administrator (not being a creditor-administrator, who is now precluded from retaining by the form of the administration bond) has a legal right to

Appropriation of payments

can appropriate a general payment to a statute-barred debt, but he cannot appropriate such a payment made before judgment, after a judgment deciding that such a debt is statute barred, Smith v. Betty, 1903 (2) KB 317. … in the first instance appropriate the payment, solvitur in modum solventis; if he omit to do so, the creditor may make the appropriation, recipitur in modum recipientis; if neither debtor nor creditor make any appropriation, the law

interest

or judicial means without any agreement providing for security (as in the case of a tax lien or judgment lien), a security interest and lien may inhere in the same claim, as when a mortgage comprises both … personal property or fixtures created by a security agreement that secures payment or performance of an obligation [the creditor had a security interest in the inventory and accounts receivable of the business] called also Article Nine security

Executor

DEBTS. (7) The executor may, even after action commenced by an adverse creditor and at any time before judgment therein, pay one creditor in preference to another of equal degree. After an order for administration has been

bill

it has expired. Bills of review are abolished in federal practice by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b). creditor's bill : an equitable bill by which a creditor who has won a court judgment against a debtor … repeated litigation bill of review : an equitable bill used to start a suit to have the final judgment of a previous suit set aside compare bill in the nature of a bill of review in this

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