...creditor agrees to take from his debtor a composition, and, on the faith of that agreement, the debtor executes a deed of assignment of all his property to a trustee for the benefit of his creditors, the former shall not be allowed, by refusing to assent to the deed, to sue his debtor for his whole...

...may prove, that, on the faith of plt.'s undertaking to receive a composition from him, he executed a deed of assignment of all his property to a trustee, for the benefit of his creditors, and that plt. refused to sign the deed of composition : Butler v. Rhodes, 1 Esp. Rep. 236, supra. However,...

...no legal personal representative, partly of doubts as to the validity and effect of a deed assigning all his property to a trustee for the benefit of his creditors, of which a notice appeared in the London Gazette a few days after, and which was alleged to have been...

...objected to this, saying that he should suffer by it. On the 6th of June, however, Davis executed an assignment of all his property to a trustee, for the benefit of his creditors. It was proved that, between the 3d and 6th, Woolley had been seen in London, in company with the plaintiff,...

...have been made in contemplation of a 1320 Composition Deed. debtor, on the faith of which the debtor executes a deed of assignment of all his property to a trustee for the benefit of his creditors, will not be allowed, by refusing to execute such deed, to sue bis debtor for the whole of bis demand...

...fiat founded on a concerted act of bankruptcy ; and that therefore a deed, whereby a trader assigns all his property to a trustee for the benefit of his creditors, is not an act of bankruptcy sufficient to support a fiat founded on the petition of the creditor, who...

...Lull. CHARLES DANA, Administrator of GILL WHEELOCK, v. JOEL LULL, JR. * When a debtor makes a voluntary assignment of all his property to a trustee for the benefit of certain of his creditors, who are specified, and does not provide that the surplus shall be distributed...

...objected to this, saying that he should suffer by it. On the (ith of June, however, Davis executed an assignment of all his property to a trustee, for the benefit of his creditors. It was proved that, between the 3d and 6th, Woolley had been seen in London, in company with the plaintiff,...

...induced the other creditors to execute a composition deed, but had also induced the debtor to assign all his property to a trustee for the benefit of his creditors; and Lord Kenyan is reported to have ruled that the plaintiff, who had refused to execute the deed,...

...visit Mr. Rashleigh in prison. He found him composed and sad. Brandon informed him that he had assigned all his property to a trustee for the benefit of his creditors— that his farm had been sold — his daughter had, from a womanly impulse, emancipated all her slaves...