| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - Law reports, digests, etc - 1831 - 686 pages
...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... | |
| John Simcoe Saunders - Civil procedure - 1831 - 598 pages
...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,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 810 pages
...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... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, John Leycester Adolphus - Law reports, digests, etc - 1834 - 1034 pages
...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,... | |
| Samuel Bealey Harrison, Frederic Edwards - Nisi prius - 1838 - 908 pages
...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... | |
| Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 798 pages
...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... | |
| Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 766 pages
...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,... | |
| John Jolliffe - Slavery - 1858 - 412 pages
...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... | |
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