...premiums on policies of assurance ? ANS. — By the Act of 1861, s. 154, if any bankrupt shall, at the time of adjudication, be liable by reason of any contract or promise to pay premiums upon any policy of insurance or any other sums of money, whether yearly or otherwise,...

...without the Intervention of a Jury or a Reference to a Court of Law. 154. If any Bankrupt shall at the Time of Adjudication be liable by reason of any Contract or Promise to pay Premiums upon any Policy of Insurance, or any other Sums of Money, whether yearly or otherwise,...

...(m). Now, however, ty the 154th section of the 24 & 25 Viet. c. 134,—" If any bankrupt shall, at the time of adjudication, be liable, by reason of any contract or promise, to pay premiums upon any policy of insurance, or any other sums of money whether yearly or otherwise,...

...without the intervention of a jury or a reference to a court of law (d). If any bankrupt shall, at the time of adjudication, be liable, by reason of any contract or promise to pay premiums upon any policy of insurance, or any other sums of money, whether yearly or otherwise,...

...referred to tho 153rd section of the act of 1861, which enacts, that " if any bankrupt shall at the time of adjudication be liable, by reason of any contract...liquidated or ascertained, it shall be lawful for the court to direct such damages to be assessed by a jury, and the amount of damage, when assessed, shall be...

...of a Jury, or a Reference to the Court of Summary Jurisdiction. CXIX. If any Bankrupt shall at the Time of Adjudication be liable by reason of any Contract or Promise to pay Preminms upon any Policy of Insurance, or any other Sums of Money, whether yearly or otherwise,...

...unliquidated damages in any, and what cases ? ANS. By the Act of 1861, sect. 153, if any bankrupt is liable by reason of any contract or promise to a demand...and cannot be otherwise liquidated or ascertained, the Court may direct such damages to be assessed by a jury either before itself or a Court of Law ;...

...Bankruptcy Act, 1861. That section enacts that '• If n b'inkrupt shall at the time of judication be liable by reason of any contract or promise to a demand in the nature of damages which ha.» njt been, nnd cannot be, otherwise liquidated or ascertained, it shall be lawful for the Court,...

...then sued the defendant for the damage he had sustained : — • HM, that the defendant waa not " liable, by reason of any contract or promise, to a demand in the nature of damages " at the suit of the plaintiff, within the meaning of s. 153 of the Bankruptcy Act, 1861 ; that the...

...HO Willi- ims, for the defendant. THE COURT (Lush and Hayes, JJ.) held that the defendant was not " liable by reason of any contract or promise to a demand in the nature of damages," within the meaning of section 153, that that section only contemplated express contracts, that the...