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Bankruptcy.
Periodical payments.
19. When any rent or other payment falls due at stated periods and the receiving order is made at any time other than one of those periods, the person entitled to the rent or payment may prove for a proportionate part thereof up to the date of the order as if the rent or payment became due from day to day.
20. On any debt or sum certain, payable at a certain time or otherwise, whereon interest is not reserved or agreed and which is overdue at the date of the receiving order and provable in bankruptcy, the creditor may prove for interest at a rate not exceeding eight per cent per annum to the date of the order from the time when the debt or sum was payable, if the debt or sum is payable by virtue of a written instrument at a certain time, and if payable otherwise, then from the time when a demand in writing has been made giving the debtor notice that interest will be claimed from the date of the demand until the time of payment.
Interest.
Debt payable at a future time.
21. A creditor may prove for a debt not payable when the debtor committed an act of bankruptcy as if it were payable presently, and may receive dividends equally with the other creditors, deducting only thereout a rebate of interest at the rate of five per cent per annum computed from the declaration of a dividend to the time when the debt would have become payable, according to the terms on which it was contracted.
Form 49, Bankruptcy Rules.
Admission or rejection of proofs.
22. The trustee shall examine every proof and the grounds of the debt, and in writing admit or reject it in whole or in part or require further evidence in support of it. If he rejects a proof he shall state in writing to the creditor the grounds of the rejection.
23. If the trustee thinks that proof has been improperly admitted the court may, on the application of the trustee,
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