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Hinde Palmer's Act

46), which abolished the priority of specialty (see SPECIALTY) over simple contract debts in the administration of the estates of persons dying

Specialty debts

of the estate of a deceased person in priority to simple contract debts; but this distinction was abolished by the Administration of

Retainer of debts

the right may be exercised against specialty as well as simple contract creditors [Re Hariss, (1914) 2 Ch 395]. Consult Williams or

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Record, Debts of

judgment, recognizance, etc. Since 1st January, 1870, all specialty and simple contract debts of deceased persons stand in equal degree in the

Crown debts

in quisition a personis found to be a Crown-debtor by simple contract, the debt immediately becomes a specialty; but a person givien

General issue

indebted' to money counts, or 'nunquam assumpsit' to actions on simple contract (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, Sched. B, 37). Pleading the general

Fines in copyholds

by s. 130(5) of that Act fines are recoverable as simple contract debts and not otherwise. Part II of the 13th Sched.

Concessit solvere

(he agreed to pay), an action of debt upon a simple contract. It lies by custom in the Mayor's Court, London, and

Acknowledgment of debt or liability

before action brought will revive actions, on debt grounded on simple contract, if in writing under 9 Geo. 4, c. 14, and

Contract for sale of land

40. See FRAUDS, STATUTE OF. If the contract is a simple, unconditional, or open contract for sale of land, it is

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