Woodroffe Law Relating to Receivers

with Model Forms of Orders and Applications; Relevant Sections of Statutes
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Description
This Tagore Law Lecture (delivered in 1897) is a unique companion to the Law of Injunction (also a TLL, delivered by the same author). Since 1897, there have been sea changes in the above area of law. This new revised edition has been upgraded with recent developments of law without altering the basic structure of the monumental work. Ne topics like
1.    Appointment - Removal - Discharge of Receiver
2.    Remedy of the Third Party.
3.    Receivers Role in Company Law; and Recovery of Bank Debt;
4.    Foreign Receivers;
5.    Conflict of Laws;
6.    Common Law Aspect
and many other topics of practical value have been incorporated in this new edition. All important case laws of the Supreme Court, High Courts and foreign decisions have been included giving maximum cross references to most of the citations. Major leading, recognized titles referred in this book have been updated with its new edition. For example, Mulla's Code of Civil Procedure (Abridged), 11th edition to 15th edition has been replaced with 5th edition.
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Contents
Chapter 1      General Features of the Jurisdiction
Chapter 2      The Appointment
Chapter 3      Receiver of Suit Property
Chapter 4      Receivers of Property under Attachment
Chapter 5      Rights and Powers : Duties and Liabilities of a Receiver
Chapter 6      Removal of Receiver and Discharge of Receiver and Sureties
Appendix A    :    Relevant Sections of Statutes
Appendix B    :    Model Forms of Orders
Appendix X    :    Model forms of Applications
Subject Index
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Author Details
Sir John Wood was the eldest son of James Tisdall Woodroffe, Advocate General of Bengal and sometime Legal Member of the Government of India. He was educated at Woburm Park School and University College, Oxford where he studied jurisprudence and B.C.L. (Bachelor of Civil Law). He was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1889 and in the following year was enrolled as an advocate of the Calcutta High Court. He was soon made a Fellow of the Calcutta University and appointed Tagore Law Professor. He was appointed Standing Counsel to the Government of India in 1902 and two years later elevated the High Court Bench. He served the chair with competence for eighteen years and in 1915 officiated as Chief Justice. After retiring, he was the Reader in Indian Law to the University of Oxford. He finally moved to France in his retirement. Along sides his judicial duties h studied Sanskrit and Hindu Philosophy and was specially interested in the esoteric Hindu Tantric Shakti system. He translated around twenty Sanskrit texts and under his pseudonym Arthur Avalon.
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