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trustee in bankruptcy

noun

Law.
  1. a person appointed by a court to administer the property of a bankrupt.



trustee in bankruptcy

noun

  1. a person entrusted with the administration of a bankrupt's affairs and with realizing his or her assets for the benefit of the creditors

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He says the bank has made no effort to try to reverse the bankruptcy and the trustee in bankruptcy now wants to control the claim for compensation.

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Chancery Judge Kenneth Burns on Monday named Derek Henderson, a Jackson lawyer who serves as a trustee in bankruptcy cases, as the receiver for the plant.

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Polly Peck administrators and Nadir's trustee in bankruptcy have long held that donations to the Conservative party— equivalent to about £700,000 today — amounted to illegal transfers from a NatWest bank account in Jersey held in the name of a Polly Peck subsidiary.

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Kevin Hellard, Nadir's trustee in bankruptcy has written to the Conservative party following the former Polly Peck boss's conviction, reminding officials of his view that the money must be returned.

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Where E. V. Lucas had arranged with Grant Richards to publish a work on half profit, it was held in the Chancery Division in 1905 by Justice Warrington in a suit against the publishers' trustee in bankruptcy, that the contract was terminated by bankruptcy and that Mr. Lucas on fair purchase of the remaining copies, might contract with another publisher.

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