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Stannary
county courts; see Companies Act, 1929, ss. 163 (jurisdiction in winding up), 297 to 299 (attachment of debts, preferential payments, and mine club funds), 339 (1) (contributories), 357 (prohibition of unregis-tered companies having more than twenty members
Secretary
2 Ch D 1], and as such liable for misfeasance under s. 276 (ibid.). He is entitled to preferential payment on account of salary in a winding-up [S. 264; Cairney v. Back, (1906) 2 KB 746].
Rank - Precedence
word 'precedence' denotes the ceremonial order or priority to be observed on formal occasions, or a right to preferential treatment. In the same strain the word 'primacy' denotes the state of being first in rank or being
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Privileged debts
debts which an executor may pay in preference to all others, such as funeral expenses, etc. and see PREFERENTIAL PAY-MENTS.
Discrimination with reasons
Discrimination with reasons, means rational classification for differential treatment having nexus to the constitutionally permissible object. Preferential representation for the backward classes in services with due regard to administrative efficiency is permissible object and back
Primogeniture
are not affected. [Cf. Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 201 (2)] Means first born and denotes the preferential rights of the senior-most in age to succeed to the estate, since senior-most in age is entitled to
Precedence
Precedence, denotes the ceremonial order or priority to be observed on formal occasion; or a sight to preferential treatment, S.C. Advocates-on-Records Asson. v. Union of India, AIR 1994 SC 268.
Distress
L. and T.; Foa, Landlord and Tenant; and Chit. Stat., tit. 'Landlord and Tenant.' See also BANKRUPTCY; WINDING-UP; PREFERENTIAL PAYMENTS.
Crown debts
purpose of enforcing the judgment has been issued and registered. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Land,' and titles EXTENT; PREFERENTIAL PAYMENTS.
Covent Garden Market
five other growers of fruit, etc., were held to have a locus standi to sue for infringement of preferential rights
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