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The applicants, Maggie Jaftha and Christina van Rooyen, were unemployed residents of Prince Albert, a small town in the Little Karoo.Each had defaulted on a debt – Jaftha on a loan of R250 taken out in 1998, and Schoeman on a loan of approximately R190 taken out in 1995 – and had lost their homes on 17 August 2001, when each property was separately sold in execution for amounts of R5,000 ...
A warrant of execution is a form of writ of execution used in the County Court in England and Wales (only). It is a method of enforcing judgments and empowers a County Court bailiff to attend a judgment debtor ’s (hereafter, debtor) address to take goods for sale.
David Mitchell (1972 – 6 January 2000) was a Bahamian murderer who killed two German tourists in the Bahamas and was executed as a result. He is the most recent executed prisoner to be performed by the Bahamas. Mitchell was convicted of stabbing his victims to death and received the mandatory sentence of death by hanging. He was originally ...
A warrant is generally an order that serves as a specific type of authorization, that is, a writ issued by a competent officer, usually a judge or magistrate, that permits an otherwise illegal act that would violate individual rights in order to enforce the law and aid in investigations; affording the person executing the writ protection from damages if the act is performed.
The week of execution appointed in the warrant shall be not less than 30 days and not more than 60 days after the issuance of the warrant. The date of execution within said week shall be left to the discretion of the commissioner, but the date and hour of the execution shall be announced publicly no later than seven days prior to said execution ...
The law of the Bahamas makes provisions for the appointment of 12 Justices to the Bench of the Supreme Court, inclusive of the Chief Justice, and for five Justices of the Court of Appeal, inclusive of the President. The Chief Justice, as Head of the Judiciary, is an ex officio member of the Court of Appeal, but only sits at the invitation of ...
Marcus v. Search Warrant, 367 U.S. 717 (1961), full title Marcus v. Search Warrant of Property at 104 East Tenth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. An unusual in rem case heard by the Supreme Court where the named object was not the seized property but the warrant under which it was seized. Since all the government agents involved were indisputably ...
Nulla bona is a Latin legal term meaning "no goods". A sheriff writes this when he can find no property to seize to pay off a court judgment. [1] Synonymous with return nulla bona, it denotes the return of a writ of execution signifying that the officer made a strict and diligent search but was unable to find any property of the defendant liable to seizure under the writ, whereof to make a levy.