... bone fles to the bankrupt, he shall not be obliged D to pay it a second time to the trustee ; anti it the possessor of N any bill or promissory note, which is payable by the bankrupt, Bi or of a security for a debt due by the bankrupt, saltll have re- ...

... FE1RUARY 20. C IN THlE SEQUESTRATION OF JOHN TAYLOR, LATE r MANAGER OF THE WESTERN BSANS. (Before Sheriff BELL.) t To-day this bankrupt was farther examined in tle I Juetice of Peace Hall ; and in reply to interrogations I from Mr Adam Paterson, ?? last diet ...

... Further, it would appear that, apart from seques- tration nuder the statute, a burgh now may be - made notour bankrupt under the Bankrupt Act. Formerly this could not be done, Hogart and Wilson v. Magistrates of Musselburgb, 15 D, 417. But the requisites ...

... Though there were practical difficulties in the wvay of making bankrupt each of the 66 members of this company, this was 0O answer to the principle of law. Two bad already been bankrupt; but the great point was the refusal of the policy holders to take ...

... years, that's between £500 and £6000; what did you do with the rest ' Bankrupt- Can't tell ; I lost it either in my business or I spent it. Mr Dickson-Where did you spend it? Bankrupt-On the racecourse or some- where else. I spent very little on the turf ...

... re-examination of the bankrupt chiefly on the-ground that the former axamication did not con- tain a full or correct account of the bankrupt's affairs, particularly with reference to a certain private trust granted by the bankrupt in 1848. Mr Somerville ...

... bankr~uptcy, and all such sales must be by public auction; 'duly advertised. Fer-rentages are no longer to be taken from bankrupts' estates, and the official assignees and messengers are to he greatly re- duced in number, and paid by fixed salaries. At ...

... Scott, the bankrupt, acted as agent for his brother, W. Scott, at Rio Janeiro; thl aud procured, in 1825, from Brown and Co. ,shipments vi; of goods to his brother, to he sold there for behoof of k.- Brown and Co. the consigners. The bankrupt, on ob- Vi ...

... adjourned examination. When for- anerly before the Court the bankrupt gave in a state of his affairs, showing liabilities amounting to L.8043 13s 5d, and assets L.1507 10s 6d. The books of the bankrupt were, however, found to be in a backward state, and his ...

... grounds, inter aliac, that the bankrupt had been guilty of fraudulent conduct, and that the trustee had failed in his duty of expiscating the affairs of the estate, and of reporting the . fraudulent conduct of the bankrupt. The Sheriff of Edinburghshire ...

... maintained that he was entitled to inquire th: Ct thie agent of the bankrupt as to the niature- of every ac trans~action between him and the bankrupt in relationfo to any part of the bankrupt's estate. The Sheriff- so Substitute repelled the objection, and ...

... party must discharge the castt;0c he alleged, and proved, misconduct on the p! z- the bankrupts. Here tlhere was no charge of uti5e' :d duct, and therefore the bankrupts must have ?? le costs: this rule, however, he would not extendS t it as to give costs ...