VPRS 766 Deeds Of Arrangement

In cases of insolvency, whether voluntary or involuntary, a considerable amount of documentation needed to be assembled to assess the extent of indebtedness, to definitively identify creditors and their claims and in the course of attempting to resolve these claims as satisfactorily and justly as possible and to identify the assets of the insolvent. Often matters of insolvency took some considerable time to resolve with a number of options for resolution such as the attempt to trade out of the insolvency, the liquidation of assets and compounding with creditors by the assignee or trustee of the estate. All of these activities were under the supervision of the Court and the standard measures or steps needed to be documented with results recorded in the Registers.These proceedings were set out by the statutes governing insolvency in Victoria. These were firstly, the New South Wales Insolvency Acts of 1841 and 1844 and secondly, with the establishment of the Court of Insolvency in the Insolvency Act 1870 the statutes enacted in Victoria. These were superseded in 1928 with Commonwealth laws enacted and applicable in all states.This series consists of the Deeds of Arrangement documentation as required by the cases heard before the Court of Insolvency.

无论自愿抑或非自愿破产，均需汇编大量文件，以评估债务总额、明确债权人及其债权主张，并在尽可能圆满公正地处理此类债权的过程中，确认破产方的资产。破产案件往往耗时良久，可供选择的解决途径包括尝试通过经营摆脱破产困境、资产清算，以及遗产受让人与受托人同债权人达成债务和解。上述所有活动均须接受法院监督，标准流程与操作步骤须予以归档留存，并将办理结果登记至官方登记册。此类程序由维多利亚州管辖破产事务的成文法规予以规定：其一为1841年与1844年《新南威尔士破产法》；其二为1870年《破产法》设立破产法庭后，维多利亚州自行制定的相关成文法规。1928年，适用于澳大利亚所有州的联邦法律颁布实施，上述法规随即被取代。本数据集包含破产法庭审理案件所需的债务和解契约文件。