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Friendly societies
Blackburn, etc., Society, (1914) 2 Ch 430; Companies (Converted Societies) Act, 1910, which was passed, it is conceived, owing to certain obiter dicta in McGlade v. Royal London Mutual Insurance Society, (1910) 2 Ch 169. As to
Foreign Attachment
Foreign Attachment, a custom which prevails in the city of London, whereby a debt owing to a defendant, sued in the Court of the Mayor or Sheriff, may be attached in the hands
Due amounts due
an amount which the creditor has a right to recover. Wharton in Law Lexicon defines 'due' as anything owing; that which one contracts to pay another. 'Amounts due' under, s. 71 are those amounts which the creditor
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Married women's property
after his death to her heir-at-law. (2) Her leasehold estate, her personal estate in expectancy, and the debts owing to her and other 'choses in action,' became his absolutely if he did some act to appropriate or
Indefinite payment
Indefinite payment, where a debtor owes several debts to a creditor, and makes a payment, without specifying to which of the debts it is to be applied. See APPROPRIATION OF PAYMENTS.
Debtor
Debtor, he that owes something to another. As to the meaning of 'debtor' in the Bankruptcy Act, 1914, see s. 1, sub-s. 2, of the Act. See CREDITOR and BANKRUPT. Debtor, in relation to an attachment...
I.O.U
I.O.U., a written acknowledgement of a debt, so called because it commences with those letters, which custom has substituted for the words I owe you, because they have the same sound. It ordinarily runs thus:- 'To...
Homage
Homage [fr. homo, Lat., a man], the most honourable service and most humble service of reverence that a free tenant might do to his lord. When a tenant performed it, he was unfit, and his head...
Interest
Interest, an interest for the purposes of the regula-tion was not limited to a direct financial interest and included membership of a panel such as the panel of which the claimant's solicitors were members that, therefore,...
Fundamental duties
Fundamental duties, are certain obligations on the part of a citizen which he or she owes towards the State so that the individual may not overlook his duties to the community while exercising his fundamental right...
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