The Victorian Law Reports, Volume 21Published under the direction of the Council of Law Reporting by Charles F. Maxwell, 1896 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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A'Beckett action administration affidavit Alfred Shaw alleged amount appear application appointed assignment AUSTRALIA LIMITED BANK OF AUSTRALIA BANK OF VICTORIA bankruptcy behalf bill of sale BUILDING SOCIETY certificate cheque claim Commissioners COMPANY LIMITED contract conviction costs counsel creditors Crown debentures debt debtor decision deed easement Edward Augustus Petherick entitled evidence execution Exparte fact garnishee given grant ground held Hodges HOLROYD Hood income insolvency intended interest issued Judge judgment judgment debtor jurisdiction jury justices land lease liability liquidation Madden matter Melbourne Metropolitan Board mortgage notice objection offence opinion order absolute order nisi paid parties payment person Petherick petition petitioner plaintiff possession present proceedings promissory notes question reason received referred Registrar Richard Chadwick rule settlor shareholders shares Solicitors Solicitors for defendant Statute sub-sec summons Supreme Court testator thereof transfer trial trustee Victoria Victorian Railways Williams words writ
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Page 471 - All goods being at the commencement of the bankruptcy, in the possession, order or disposition of the bankrupt, in his trade or business, by the consent and permission of the true owner, under such circumstances that he is the reputed owner thereof...
Page 119 - ... but merely that the person of whose action or default the expression is used is a free agent, and that what has been done arises from the spontaneous action of his will. It amounts to nothing more than this, that he knows what he is doing and intends to do what he is doing, and is a free agent": 29 Am.
Page 306 - Act, if the signature shall be so placed at or after, or following, or under, or beside, or opposite to the end of the will, that it shall be apparent on the face of the will that the testator intended to give effect by such his signature to the writing signed as his will...
Page 471 - includes money, goods, things in action, land, and every description of property, whether real or personal and whether situate in England or elsewhere ; also, obligations, easements, and every description of estate, interest and profit, present or future, vested or contingent, arising out of or incident to property as above defined : " Resolution
Page 493 - In a personal action, to which none of these causes of jurisdiction apply, a decree pronounced in absentem by a foreign Court, to the jurisdiction of which the defendant has not in any way submitted himself, is by international law an absolute nullity.
Page 484 - ... thereon, and shall thereupon reverse, affirm, or amend the determination in respect of which the case has been stated, or remit the matter to the...
Page 406 - The board may raise or secure the payment or repayment of such moneys in such manner and upon such terms and conditions in all respects as they think fit and in particular by the issue of debentures or debenture stock...
Page 203 - ... the party alleging himself to be entitled to execution may apply to the Court or a Judge for leave to issue execution accordingly. And such Court or Judge may, if satisfied that the party so applying is entitled to issue execution, make an order to that effect, or may order that any issue or question necessary to determine the rights of the parties shall be tried in any of the ways in which any question in an action may be tried. And in either case such Court or Judge may impose such terms, as...
Page 229 - ... an action against him, and may obtain an injunction against the continuance of such threats, and may recover such damage (if any) as...
Page 29 - Where any company is being wound up by the Court or subject to the supervision of the Court, any attachment, sequestration, distress, or execution put in force against the estate or effects of the company after the commencement of the winding up shall be void to all intents.