Tableau Of Distribution

In Louisiana. A list of creditors of an insolvent estate, stating what each is entitled to. 4 Mart. (La.; N. S.) 535. TABULA IN NAUFRAGIO (Lat. a plank in a wreck).

In English law. A figurative term used to denote the power of a third mortgagee, who, having obtained his mortgage without any knowledge of a second mortgage, may acquire the first incumbrance, and squeeze out and have satisfaction before the second. 2 Ves. Jr. 573; 2 Fonbl. Eq. bk. 3, c. 2, § 2; 2 Vent. 337; 1 Chanc. Cas. 162; 1 Story, Eq. Jur. §§ 414, 415. See "Tacking."

In Louisiana. A list of creditors of an insolvent estate, stating what each is entitled to. Taylor v. Hollander, 4 Mart. N. S. (La.) 535. TABULA IN NAUFRAGIO (Lat. a plank in a wreck). A figurative term used to denote the power of a third mortgagee, who, having obtained his mortgage without any knowledge of a second mortgage, may acquire the first incumbrance, and squeeze out and have satisfaction before the second. 2 Ves. Ch. 573. “It may be fairly said that the doctrine survives only in the unjust and much-criticised English rule of tacking’*; Ames, Lect. Leg. Hist. 269. See Tacking; Pubchaseb fob Value without Notice. The use of the expression is attributed to Sir Matthew Hale; see 2 P. Wms. 491.