Facts, Failures and Frauds: Revelations, Financial, Mercantile, CriminalGroombridge & sons, 1859 - 727 sivua |
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13th of October advances Agar amount appeared asked assignees Atwell balance-sheet Bank of England bankruptcy bankrupts Brown Burgess called Cameron capital Chapman character charge cheque clerk Cole Cole Brothers Colonel Waugh convertible securities course Court creditors crime criminal Crystal Palace Company Davidson and Gordon December deeds defendants deposited directors discount distillery dividend doubt duty Esdaile evidence examined fact February fictitious Folkestone forgery fraud gentleman guilty Hardwicke honour Hudson James Robson James Sadleir John Sadleir June jury Kennedy knew letter Linklater London and County Maltby manager Messrs never Northern Railway obtained Overend and Gurney paid parties past-due bills person Pierce prisoner proceeded proved purchase Railway Company received Redpath robbery Robson Saward securities Serjeant shareholders shares solicitor South-Eastern Railway Company spelter Stapleton statement Strahan Tester tion Tipperary Bank told took transactions transfer warrants wharf witness
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Sivu 120 - ... shall prevent, lessen or impeach any remedy at law or in equity which any party aggrieved by any offence against any of the said sections might have had if this act had not been passed...
Sivu 105 - Years, and if a Male, to be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped (if the Court shall so think fit) in addition to such Imprisonment, II.
Sivu 105 - ... and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be transported beyond the seas for any term not exceeding fourteen years nor less than seven years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, in the common gaol or house of correction, for any term not exceeding three years...
Sivu 120 - Kingdom or of Great Britain or of Ireland or of any Foreign State), or in any Fund of any Body Corporate, Company, or Society...
Sivu 238 - I cannot live — I have ruined too many — I could not live and see their agony— I have committed diabolical crimes unknown to any human being. They will now appear, bringing my family and others to distress — causing to all shame and grief that they should have ever known me. " I blame no one, but attribute all to my own infamous villany. , and hundreds of others ruined by my villany.
Sivu 272 - ... &c. ; that once, at least, in every month, they should settle and adjust and balance the said books, and publish as the court should direct, "a full, true, and explicit statement and balance-sheet, exhibiting the assets and liabilities of the company, and the amount and nature of the capital and property thereof, and the then fair estimated value thereof, and the amount of the company's negotiable obligations then in circulation, and the profits and losses of the company, and all other matters...
Sivu 120 - Offence have disclosed such Act, on Oath, in consequence of any compulsory Process of any Court of Law or Equity in any Action, Suit, or Proceeding which shall have been bond fide instituted by any Party aggrieved, or if he shall have disclosed the same in any Examination or Deposition before any Commissioners of Bankruptcy.
Sivu 120 - Act in respect of any act done by him, if he shall at any time previously to his being indicted for such offence have disclosed...
Sivu 120 - ... shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to any of the punishments which the Court may award, as hereinbefore last mentioned.
Sivu 364 - Attorney-General has the right ex officio to file an information. This is an ancient and undoubted prerogative, and quite constitutional and beneficial, and I have heard no complaint on the part of the counsel for the defendants, of the course which has been adopted. Gentlemen, this information charges, in the first count, that the defendants conspired together to represent to the shareholders that the Royal British Bank and its affairs had been during the half-year ended the 31st of December, 1855,...