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Leave to defend
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 to quit, or has become liable … defendant should within twelve days obtain leave to appear and defend the action, allowed the plaintiff to sign judgment on proof of service. This procedure was retained by the (English) Judicature Act, 1875, Ord. II., r. 6,
Imprisonment
the (English) Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914; see especially s. 3 and ss. 16-18; and see the (English) Money Payments (Justices Procedure) Act, 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 46), as to imprison-ment, detention in a … with six exceptions; but, subject to Rules of Court, by s. 5, allows commitment to prison of a judgment debtor for not more than six weeks; this jurisdiction is now exercised only by the Bankruptcy Court and
Married women's property
of the marriage, or should be acquired by or devolve upon her after marriage, including any wages, earnings, money and property gained or acquired by her in any employment, trade, or occupation in which she was engaged, … Now a married woman shall be subject to the law relating to bankruptcy and to the enforcement of judgments and orders in all respects as if she was a feme sole (Law Reform (M. W. and Tortfeasors)
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Appropriation of payments
Appropriation of payments, the application to one of several debts of a sum of money paid by a debtor on a general account. The general rule as to appropriation of payments is this: … 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.
Crown debts
recover them by a summary process called an extent. See 33 Hen. 8, c. 39. Every person having money belonging to the Crown is a Crown-debtor. When upon in quisition a personis found to be a Crown-debtor … Act, 1925, that Crown debts shall not affectlands until writ or ordr for the purpose of enforcing the judgment has been issued and registered. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Land,' and titles EXTENT; PREFERENTIAL PAYMENTS.
Specific performance
AC 477. (d) The contract must be entered into for a valuable executory consideration, such as marriage or money; and not for a merely good consideration, how meritorious soever it may be. (e) While a valuable consideration … following contacts will be specially enforced:- (1) A sale ordered by a decree of a Court, for the judgment of the court in confirming such a purchase takes the transaction out of the statute. It is, however,
bill
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 … 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
Executor
of administration, and no purchaser or mortgagee dealing with him is concerned to inquire for what purpose the money is required. Even if a later will subsequently comes to light appointing a different person executor, the acts … 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
Record
form received from any place outside India and authenticated in the manner as specified in rules. [Prevention of money Laundering (Manner of Receiving the Records Authenticated Outside India) Rules, 2005, R. 2(b)]. A documentary account of past … of these rules, means the aggregate of papers relating to an appeal (including the pleadings, proceedings, evidence and judgments) proper to be laid before the Court at the hearing of the appeal. [Supreme Court Rules, 1966, R.
Attachment
Bowen, LJ, Re Evans, (1892) 9 TLR 109. Means the seizing of a person's property to secure a judgment or to be sold in satisfaction of a judgment, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 123. … prohibition of transfer, conversion, disposition or movement of property by an order issued under Chapter III. [Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, (15 of 2003), s. 2(d)] A process from a Court of Record, awarded by the judges at
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