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liquidated claim

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unliquidated

unliquidated : not liquidated ;esp : not calculated or established as a specific amount [an claim]

Leave to defend

rent, it is provided that in all actions where the plaintiff seeks merely to recover a debt or liquidated demand (see QUANTUM MERUIT) in money, or possession where a tenancy has expired or been determined by notice … may, at the option of the plaintiff, be specially endorsed with or accompanied by a statement of his claim as of the remedy to which he claims to be entitled; in which case, if the defendant fail

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Costs

the scale as he may direct. (4) If in any action the claim is for a debt or liquidated demand for a sum of twenty pounds or upwards, and-- (a) the defendant pays the amount claimed or

Lien

contract. (2) The debts or claims to which a lien properly attaches. It attaches only to certain and liquidated demands, and not to those which sound only in damages, and can be ascertained only through the intervention … the thing itself. It is either particular, as a right to retain a thing for some charge or claim growing out of, or connected with, the identical thing; or general, as a right to retain a thing

Mesne profits, action of

the true owner as compensation for the tort which he has committed. A claim for rent is therefore liquidated, while a claim for mesne profits is always unliquidated' (Odgerson Pleading). The action should be brought in the

Debt

from one person to another. An action of debt lay where a person claimed the recovery of a liquidated or certain sum of money affirmed to be due to him; and it was generally founded on some … a sum of money due from one person to another. An action of debt lay where a person claimed the recovery of a liquidated or certain sum of money affirmed to be due to him; and it

Defence

old 'demurrer.' See STATEMENT OF DEFENCE DEMURRER. In certain cases, e.g., where the plaintiff's claim is for a liquidated sum only, he may specially indorse his writ, and in such case leave must be obtained to defend

objection to exemptions

to exemptions A trustee's or creditor's objection to the debtor's attempt to claim certain property as exempt from liquidation by the trustee to creditors. Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

Fieri facias

a winding-up, see s. 268 et seq., (English) Companies Act, 1929. The sheriff, however, must satisfy the landlord's claim for rent up to one year's arrears before removing the goods seized, (English) Landlord and Tenant Act, 1709 … selling goods under an execution, see (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 40 et seq, and as against the liquidator under a winding-up, see s. 268 et seq., (English) Companies Act, 1929. The sheriff, however, must satisfy the

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