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Bankrupt

certificates (without which a solicitor cannot practise) to bankrupt solicitors. Clergyman.--Where the bankrupt is a beneficed clergyman the trustee may apply for a sequestration of the profits of the benefice (English) (Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 50). Peers

Chapter

govern the diocese in the time of vacation, Burn's Dict. The Chapter of the bankruptcy code allowing a trustee to collect and liquidate a debtor's property either voluntarily or by court order, to satisfy creditors, Black's Law

Bill of sale

Bill of sale, an assignment by deed of chattels personal, whether absolute or by way of security. See Twyne's case, (1602) 3 Rep. 80 [44 Eliz.], and 1 Sm. L. C. 1 et seq., where the...

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Blanket bond

or all of a category of persons employed (as by a bank) or holding office (as of a trustee in bankruptcy), Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 55.

Business

in a class of goods and the transactions must ordinarily be entered into with a profit motive, Sole Trustee, Loka Shikshana Trust v. CIT, (1976) 1 SCC 254: AIR 1976 SC 10 (16): (1976) 1 SCR 461.

Charges

Charges, expenses, costs. A trustee is entitled as a matter of right to his costs, charges and expenses properly incurred in relation to

Canterbury, Archbishop of

the Church; his customary privilege is to crown the kings and queens of England; he is an ex-officio trustee of the British Museum. The Archbishop of Canterbury has, by 25 Hen. 8, c. 21, the power of

Chancery

many other matters assigned by Statute, e.g., (English) Companies (Companies Act, 1929), Law of Property (Settled Land and Trustee) Acts, 1925, (English) Land Registration Act, 1925, Life Assurance Companies Act, 1896, (English) and Patents and Designs Acts,

Bankruptcy

proceedings of which bankruptcy was the principal subject-matter and does not include a property claim brought by a trustee in bankruptcy in respect of bankrupt's assets vested in him; and that, accordingly, the proceedings were not excluded,

Official receivers

(English) Bankruptcy Act, 1883, to act as interim receivers and managers of bankrupts' estates, pending the appointment of trustees in bankruptcy: see now Bankruptcy Act, 1914, ss. 70 et seq. The report of an official receiver is

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