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Home Dictionary Name: personal judgment Page: 3Judgment-debtor
Judgment-debtor, means any person against whom a decree has been passed or an order capable of execution has been made. [Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, s. 2 (10)]One against whom a judgment ordering him to pay a sum of money stands unsatisfied. He may, by order of the Court or judge, be orally examined by the judgment creditor as to debts owing to him by third parties, and be compelled to produce books and documents, with a view to attaching any debts due to him [(English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XLV., r. 1]. See ATTACHMENT OF DEBTS....
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 of the debtor. The custom was certified by the Recorder of London, in the reign o Edward IV., to be, that if a plaint be affirmed in London before, etc., against any person, and it be returned nihil, if the plaintiff will surmise that another person within the city is a debtor to the defendant in any sum, he shall have garnishment against him to warn him to come in and answer whether he be indebted in the manner alleged; and if he comes and does not deny the debt, it shall be attached in his habds, and after four defaults, recorded on the part of the defendant, such person shall find new surety to the plaintiff for the said debt, and judgment shall be that the plaintiff shall have judgment against him and that he shall be quit against the other after execution sued out by the plaintiff. Consult Brandon on Foreign...
Attachment
Attachment, in relation to building, includes lamps, brackets, pipes, electric lines and apparatus required for street lighting purposes, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 400, Note 3, p. 291.Attachment means 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 their discretion on a bare suggestion, or on their own knowledge, against a person guilty of a contempt, who is punishable in a summary manner. Contempts may be thus classed. (1) Disobedience to the King's writs; (2) Contempt in the face of a Court; (3) Contemptuous words or writings concerning a Court; (4) Refusing to comply with the rules and awards of a Court; (5) Abuse of the process of a Court, and (6) Forgery of writs, or any other deceit tending to impose on a Court, Leach's Hawk. P. Cr., c. 22, s. 33. The issue of writs of attachm...
custody
custody [Latin custodia, from custod- custos guardian] : care or control exercised by a person or authority over something or someone: as a : supervision and control over property that usually includes liability for damage that may occur b : care and maintenance of a child that includes the right to direct the child's activities and make decisions regarding the child's upbringing compare visitation joint custody : custody of a child shared by divorced or separated parents who alternate physical custody of and share in decisions regarding the child called also shared custody phys·i·cal custody : custody that includes sharing a residence with a child shared custody : joint custody in this entry sole custody : custody of a child awarded to only one person and usually to a parent tem·po·rary custody : custody awarded until a final judgment in a matter (as a divorce) is made c : official restraint on freedom (as by arrest or imprisonment or by release on bai...
Contribution
Contribution, to any fund shall not include any sums in repayment of loan. [Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C(8)(ii)]Means the sum of money payable to the corporation by the principal employer in respect of an employee and includes any amount payable by or on behalf of the employee in accordance with the provisions of this Act. [Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of 1948), s. 2(4)]The word 'contribution' used in the proviso must also be given its due meaning. It cannot be understood as donations. If that be so, a voluntary contribution cannot amount to a compulsive donation. If the donor, in order to gain an advantage or benefit, if he apprehends that but the contribution some adverse consequence would follow, makes a donation certainly it ceases to be voluntary, Municipal Corpn. of Delhi v. Children Book Trust, AIR 1992 SC 1456 (1472): (1992) 3 SCC 390. [Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957, (66 of 1957), s. 115(4)(a), Proviso]The performance by each of two or more pers...
Title
Title, means the union of all elements (as ownership possession, and custody) constituting the legal right to control and dispose of property; the legal link between a person who owns property and the property itself, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1493.Title: 1, a general head, comprising particulars, as in a book; 2, an appellation of honour or dignity; 3, the means whereby the owner of lands has the just possession of his property--titulus est justa causa pos sidendi id quod nostrum est: Co. Litt. 345b.1. The union of all elements (as ownership, possession, and custody) constituting the legal right to central and dispose of property; the2. Legal evidence of a person's ownership rights in property; an chastenment (such as a deed) that constitute such evidence3. The heading of a statute or other legal document, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.There are several stages and degrees requisite to form a complete title to lands and tenements.1. The lowest and most imperfect degree of ...
Domesday, or domesday-book
Domesday, or domesday-book [liber judiciarius vel censualis Angli', Lat.], an ancient record made in the time of William the Conqueror, and now kept at the Record Office, consisting of two volumes, a greater and lesser; the greater containing a survey of all the lands in England except the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland, Durham, and part of Lancashire, which it is said, were never surveyed; and excepting Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, which three last are comprehended in the lesser volume. There is also a third book, which differs from the others in form more than in matter, made by command of the same king. And there is a fourth book called Domesday, which is only abridgement of the others. The question whether lands are ancient demesne or not is to be decided by the Domesday of William I., whence there is no appeal. The addition of day to this Dome-book was not meant for an allusion to the final day of judgment, as most persons have conceived, but was to strengthen...
Qude jus
Qude jus, means 'what kind of right'. A writ ordering an escheator to inquire into the extent of a religious person's right to a judgment, before its execution, to make sure that the judgment was not collusively made to avoid the mortmain statute, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1253....
pass
pass 1 a : to issue a decision, verdict, or opinion [the Supreme Court ed on a statute] b : to be legally issued [judgment ed by default] 2 : to go from the control, ownership, or possession of one person or group to that of another [title es to the buyer] vt 1 : to omit a regularly scheduled declaration and payment of (a dividend) 2 a : to get the approval of [the bill ed the House] b : to give approval or legal sanction to [the House ed the bill] 3 : to transfer the right to or interest in [the sale es the title to the goods] 4 : to put in circulation [ bad checks] compare utter 5 : to pronounce (as a sentence or judgment) judicially [the court ed a severe sentence] ...
waste
waste 1 : destruction of or damage to property that is caused by the act or omission of one (as a lessee, mortgagor, or life tenant) having a lesser estate and is usually to the injury of another (as an heir, mortgagee, or remainderman) with an interest in the same property [an action for ] ame·lio·rat·ing waste [ə-mēl-yə-rā-ti-] : waste that leads to improvement of property (as by clearing the way for rebuilding something) called also ameliorative waste permissive waste : waste caused by the failure of a tenant to take ordinary or proper care of the property voluntary waste : waste caused by the intentional commission of a destructive act by a tenant 2 : a reduction of the value of assets (as in a trust) caused by a failure to exercise proper care or sound judgment in managing them ;esp : a transfer of corporate assets (as through excessive executive compensation or a merger) for no legitimate business purpose or for less than what a person ...
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