The law against bankrupts: or, A treatise wherein the statutes against bankrupts are explained by several cases, resolutions, judgments and decrees, both at common law and in Chancery. Together with the learning of declarations and pleading relating thereunto. To which are likewise added forms and directions for commissioners, and presisidents, fit for the perusal of lawyers, or merchants and tradesmen. By T.G. serjeant at law.
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The law against bankrupts: or, A treatise wherein the statutes against bankrupts are explained by several cases, resolutions, judgments and decrees, both at common law and in Chancery. Together with the learning of declarations and pleading relating thereunto. To which are likewise added forms and directions for commissioners, and presisidents, fit for the perusal of lawyers, or merchants and tradesmen. By T.G. serjeant at law.
Author
Goodinge, Thomas.
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London :: printed for S. Heyrick, C. Harper, J. Place, J. Harrison, S. Keeble, D. Brown, J. Cleave, W. Rogers, R. Sare, W. Reeman, T. Goodwin, M. Wotton, R. Vincent, A. Roper, and J. Brixey,
1695.
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Bankruptcy -- Early works to 1800.
Law -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"The law against bankrupts: or, A treatise wherein the statutes against bankrupts are explained by several cases, resolutions, judgments and decrees, both at common law and in Chancery. Together with the learning of declarations and pleading relating thereunto. To which are likewise added forms and directions for commissioners, and presisidents, fit for the perusal of lawyers, or merchants and tradesmen. By T.G. serjeant at law." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41432.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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Trust. Of other mens Goods, of which the Bank∣rupt is in possession, and reputed Owner: Or Bonds take in his name.
THO' the Bankrupt (before he is a Bankrupt) convey his Goods to other men upon good Consideration, yet if he keep the same, and is reputed Owner thereof, and disposeth of the same as his own, such Goods shall be sold by the Commissioners, and according∣ly hath it been resolved: If one shall to the intent to support the Credit of a Bank∣rupt, suffer him to have his Goods in his Custody, and to dispose of them; this shall be accounted the Goods of the Bank∣rupt, and not of the Owner, Stiles Re∣gister, 48, 49.
In Debt on Bond the Defendant plead∣ed,* 1.1 that the Obligation was made to the Plaintiff, to the use of him and other Creditors of O. and that one of the o∣thers releast; it is an ill Plea, he being a Stranger, and the matter but Equity, 2 Keb. 333. Ward and Ossler.