| 单词 | commissioner of bankrupts |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCommissioner of Bankrupts (also Bankrupt) Commissioner of Bankrupts (also Bankrupt) n. British Law (now historical) an official appointed by the Lord Chancellor to administer the estate of a bankrupt person or persons; cf. commission of bankruptcy n. at commission n.1 Phrases 5c.A separate Court of Bankruptcy was established in 1831 under the Bankruptcy Court (England) Act to replace the Commissioners of Bankrupts. This court was merged with the High Court by the Bankruptcy Act of 1883. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [noun] > bankruptcy > appointee administering property of bankrupt Commissioner of Bankrupta1642 assignees in bankruptcy1687 receiver1768 a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) iii. 131 I am of Opinion, That the Commissioners of Bankrupts and charitable uses, have no power to commit any man. 1704 Act in Arch. Maryland (1906) XXVI. 280 The Comissioners of Bankrupt shall be adjudged..to have the same right to such Goods and Cargo..as they have to any the Goods and Wares of the sayd Bankrupt in England. 1766 W. Cowper Let. 27 Oct. (1979) I. 154 If every Dealer and Chapman was connected with Creditors like You, the poor Commissioners of Bankrupts would be ruined. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 252/2 Fiat in Bankruptcy, the authority of the Lord Chancellor to a commissioner of bankrupts, authorising him to proceed in the bankruptcy of a trader mentioned therein. 1906 Eng. Rep. 64 439 By the 58th section of the statute 5 & 6 Vict. c. 122, the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury were empowered to award to commissioners of bankrupt, whose duties were abolished by that Act, an annuity. 2009 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 22 Feb. Charles Bicknell,..the solicitor to both the Prince of Wales and the Admiralty, and also the Commissioner of Bankrupts. < as lemmas |
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