Nulla Bona - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: nulla bonaNulla bona
Nulla bona (in goods), a return made by a sheriff to a fi. fa., etc., when there is no property to levy upon....
False return
False return by sheriff on nulla bona to writ of fi. fa, after levying is actionable; for form of claim, see Bullen and Leake, Prec. Of Pl.A process server's or other court officials recorded misrepresentation that process was served, that some other action was taken, or that something is true, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 619.A return cannot be said to be 'false' unless there is an element of deliberations in it. It is possible that even where the incorrectness of the return is claimed to be due to want of care on the part of the assessee and there is no reasonable explanation forthcoming from the assessee for such want of care, the Court may, in a given case, infer deliberations and the return may be liable to be branded as a false return. But where the assessee does not include a particular item in the taxable turnover under a bona fide belief that he is not liable so to include it, it would not be right to condemn the return as a 'false' return inviting imposition of penalt...
Fieri facias
Fieri facias, usually abbreviated fi. fa. (that you cause to be made), a judicial writ of execution, the most commonly used that lies for him who has recovered any debt or damages in the King's Courts. It is a command to the sheriff, that of the goods and chattels of the party he 'cause to be made' the sum recovered by the judgment, with interest at 4l. per cent. from the time of entered-up judgment, to be rendered to the party who sued it out. If the sheriff return nulla bona, an alias fi. fa. may issue; and upon that being returned, a pluries or testatum fi. fa. may be issued into another county. The 12th s. of the Judgments Act,1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), authorizes the sheriff to seize money, bank notes, cheques, bills of exchange, etc., of the person against whose effects the writ is sued out; but he cannot seize money or bank notes after the death of the debtor, Johnson v. Pickering, (1908) 1 KB 1.A writ of execution that directs a marshal or sheriff to seize and sell a defendants...
Fieri facias de bonis ecclesiasticis
Fieri facias de bonis ecclesiasticis (that you cause to be made of the ecclesiastical goods). When a sheriff to a common fi. fa. returns nulla bona, and that the defendant is a beneficed clerk, not having any lay fee, a plaintiff may issue a fi. fa. de bonis ecclesiasticis, addressed to the bishop of the diocese, commanding him to make of the ecclesiastical goods and chattels belonging to the defendant within his diocese the sum therein mentioned, R.S.C., Ord. XLIII., r. 5, and App. H., Form 5....
Testatum Writ
Testatum Writ, a process of execution which was issued into a different county than that in which the venue was laid in the declaration; it must have been founded on a writ ejusdem generis, issued into the county of the venue, and returned nulla bona, etc. It was abolished by C.L.P Act, 1852, s. 21. See GROUND WRIT....
Quoties in verbis nulla est ambiguitas ibi nulla expositio contra verba expressa fienda est
Quoties in verbis nulla est ambiguitas ibi nulla expositio contra verba expressa fienda est (Co. Litt. 147a), when in the words there is no ambiguity, then no exposition contrary to the expressed words is to be made....
bona fide
bona fide [Latin, in good faith] 1 a : characterized by good faith and lack of fraud or deceit [a bona fide offer] b : valid under or in compliance with the law [retirement incentives made part of a bona fide employee benefit plan] 2 : made with or characterized by sincerity [a bona fide belief] 3 : being real or genuine [bona fide residents] ...
Bona vacantia
Bona vacantia, things found without any apparent owner which belong to the first occupant or finder, unless they be whale or sturgeon, wreck, treasure trove, waifs or estrays (see those titles), which belong to the Crown by virtue of its prerogative. So personal property held on trusts which have failed, or held in trust for a corporation which has been dissolved, belongs to the Crown as bona vacantia; see Re Higginson, (1898) 1 QB 325, and cases there cited. By the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 296, the property of a dissolved company including property held on trust for it shall, subject to the provisions of the Act, become bona vacantia. Before the Act was passed freehold and leasehold property reverted to the grantor. Hastings Corporation v. Letton, (1908) 1 KB 378, s. 296 is not retrospective, Re Katherine Ltd., (1932) 1 Ch 70, and (1933) 2 Ch 29. As to the rights of the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster or the Duke of Cornwall to bona vacantia, see (English) Administration of Est...
bona fide purchaser
bona fide purchaser : a purchaser who purchases in good faith without notice of any defect in title and for a valuable consideration called also bona fide purchaser for value NOTE: There are particular requirements for a bona fide purchaser of a security set out in Uniform Commercial Code section 8-302. Under this section a bona fide purchaser is one who buys a security in good faith and without notice of any adverse claims and who takes delivery of a certificated security either as a bearer security or as a registered security issued to him or her or endorsed to him or her or by a blank endorsement or to whom the transfer of an uncertificated security is registered on the books of the issuer, or as otherwise provided in section 8-313. ...
Bona fide
Bona fide, is characterized by good faith and lack of fraud or deceit; valid under or in compliance with the law; made with or characterized by sincerity; being real or genuine, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 54.Bona fide, (in good faith), implying the absence of all fraud or unfair dealing or acting, whether it consists in simulation or dissimulation.As to 'bona fide traveller,' see TRAVELLER....
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