chancery receiver
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Definitions from Case Law
From 280 U.S. 351 - Grant v. A. B. Leach & Co. · 1930Most cited · 84 citing opinions
Such a receiver has no extraterritorial power of official action; none which the court appointing him can confer, with authority to enable him to go into a foreign jurisdiction to take possession of the debtor's property; none which can give him, upon the principle of comity, a privilege to sue in a foreign court of another jurisdiction.