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Debtee-Executor

Debtee-Executor. See RETAINER OF DEBTS.

Debt

136, and ASSIGNMENT). See also Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 34, which expressly recognizes the right of retainer of a personal representative within the limits therein set out. It is a chose in action and is

Corporation or body politic

great inconvenience, or tend to defeat the very purpose of the business, it is not observed: e.g., the retainer of an inferior servant, the acceptance of bills of exchange, or making of promissory notes by companies incorporated

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Regardant, Villein, or Regardant to the Manor

Regardant, Villein, or Regardant to the Manor, an ancient servant or retainer annexed to the manor or land, who did the base services within the manor, Co.Litt. 120.

Abatement

January, 1925, is insufficient to satisfy fully all the creditors, then subject to the personal representatives' rights of retainer and preference, see A.G. v. Jackson, 1932 AC 365, their debts must abate in proportion according to their

Menial

A domestic servant or retainer esp one of humble rank one employed in low or servile offices

Hewe

A domestic servant a retainer

Officiating

of substantively, is appointed to a post in a higher rank, but not permanently or substantively, while still retaining his lien on his substantive post, Arun Kumar Chatterjee v. South Eastern Railway, AIR 1985 SC 482 (485):

Lodger

of exclusive possession, of a part of a house called lodgings, the landlord, by himself or an agent, retaining general dominion over the house itself. Lodgings may be let in the same manner as lands and tenements;

County Courts

of the following persons may address the Court, namely:-- (a) any party to the proceedings; (b) a barrister retained by or on behalf of any party; (c) a solicitor acting generally in the proceedings for a party

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