He had committed an act of bankruptcy and a petition had been presented.

He failed to comply with a bankruptcy notice, an act of bankruptcy.

There are three "parts" of the act under which the vast majority of "acts of bankruptcy" fall.

An act of bankruptcy is defined as:

A debtor commits an act of bankruptcy in each of the following cases:

On 20 December a bankruptcy petition founded on that act of bankruptcy was presented.

Under the Act, only intent to defraud creditors would amount to an Act of bankruptcy.

If such receiving order be made the whole of the assets vest in his trustee as from the date of the act of bankruptcy.

Lord Kenyon held that there had been no act of bankruptcy, and Fowler's intention in leaving his house was not fraudulent.

(b) the debtor has committed an act of bankruptcy within the six months preceding the filing of the application.

The most common act of bankruptcy is where a bankruptcy summons has been served on the debtor and he has failed to pay.

Here, when the relevant act of bankruptcy occurred, Mr. Dennis was a beneficial joint tenant of the two properties.

The following situations are considered to be acts of bankruptcy pursuant to section 7 of the Bankruptcy Act 1988:

The familiar Bankruptcy Act 1914 has gone, and concepts such as acts of bankruptcy, adjudication and the receiving order will disappear.

From the date of the act of bankruptcy, all money in the bankrupts' joint accounts belonged to the trustee in bankruptcy.

On 21 September 1982 Mr. Dennis committed an act of bankruptcy by failing to comply with the requirements of a bankruptcy notice.

An act of bankruptcy must be proved, and under this term are included various acts, which show the debtor's insolvency or his intention to delay or defraud his creditors.

'The bankruptcy of a debtor.shall be deemed to have relation back to, and to commence at, the time of the act of bankruptcy being committed on which a receiving order is made against him.

A debtor includes an insolvent person and any person who, at the time an act of bankruptcy was committed by him, resided or carried on business in Canada and (where the context requires) includes a bankrupt.

Held, under the Bankruptcy Act 1914, severance occurred at the date of the act of bankruptcy, so on her death the wife was a tenant in common with a half share and that passed to their children.

A law was thereafter enacted, which declared that no commission grounded on this act of bankruptcy was to be "deemed invalid by reason of such declaration having been concerted or agreed upon between the bankrupt and any creditor or other person."