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ACTUAL CREDITOR [4 records]

Record 1 2015-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

A creditor may forbear without expressly promising to do so. The question then arises whether this actual forbearance is consideration for some promise or act of the debtor, for example for a promise by him to give security, or for the execution of a security. Sometimes actual forbearance may be evidence of an implied promise to forbear.

CONT

Nor need there be any actual promise to forbear, if such an understanding can be inferred from the circumstances and is followed by a forbearance in fact.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

A creditor may forbear without expressly promising to do so. The question then arises whether this actual forbearance is consideration for some promise or act of the debtor, for example for a promise by him to give security, or for the execution of a security. Sometimes actual forbearance may be evidence of an implied promise to forbear.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
CONT

An alternative conclusion for this rule would not be correct, however, as it is not necessarily the case that the claimant has not lived in America for 20 years just because they have not lived there for 50 years.

CONT

... the courts cannot decide ultra petita... the judge cannot supply an alternative conclusion which has been omitted, as under our law he is required to consider only the actual claim of the creditor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
CONT

[...] les tribunaux ne pouvant juger ultra petita [...] le juge ne peut suppléer à l’omission d’une conclusion subsidiaire, car d’après notre droit il est obligé de considérer uniquement la demande même du créancier.

Spanish

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Record 4 2009-07-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Finance
  • Social Security and Employment Insurance
CONT

Conditional payment is where the debt may afterwards revive if the mode of payment does not result in actual payment, as where a creditor is paid by a cheque or bill which is afterwards dishonoured...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Finances
  • Sécurité sociale et assurance-emploi
OBS

Conditionnel - Qui dépend de certaines conditions, d'évènements incertains.

Spanish

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