 | American literature - 1898 - 1228 pages
...debts, except a corporation, shall be entitled to the benefits of the act as a voluntary bankrupt. Any natural person, except a wage-earner or a person...engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, and unincorporated company, and any corporation engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing,... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 510 pages
...much of said section as is apposite to the point urged reads thus: "Any natural person, except * * * a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, * * * may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt upon default or an im•partial trial, and shall be subject... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 2058 pages
...debts, except a corporation, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act as a voluntary bankrupt, b. Any natural person, except a wage-earner or a person...tillage of the soil, any unincorporated company, and any corporation engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, or mercantile pursuits,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1108 pages
...within Bankr. Act July 1. 1898, c. 541, § 4b, 30 Stat 547 [US Comp. St 1901, p. 3423], providing that any natural person except a wage-earner or a person...engaged chiefly in farmIng or the tillage of the soil, etc., may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt In Bankruptcy. The following is the referee's report... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1128 pages
...person liable to be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt. Section 4(b) of the bankruptcy act provides that "any natural person, except a wage-earner or a person...engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil * * * may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt". It is an elementary rule that in proceeding on a statute... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1122 pages
...[US Comp. St. Supp. 1905, p. 683]), reads as follows: "Any natural person, except a wage-earner, or person engaged chiefly In farming or the tillage of the soil, any unincorporated company, and any corporation engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, mining, or mercantile... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 2026 pages
...provisions of the Bankruptcy Act prior to the amendment of 1910. Since the amendment, which provides that "any moneyed, business or commercial corporation,...municipal, railroad, insurance or banking corporation, * » * niay be adjudged, an Involuntary bankrupt," the adjudication of such corporations has become... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1126 pages
...[US Comp. St. 1901, p. 3423]), as far as applicable to the question before us, is in this language : "Any natural person, except a wage-earner or a person engaged chiefly In fanning or the tillage of the soil * * * owing debts to the amount of one thousand dollars or over,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 2094 pages
...insolvent when he made the payments to the Albers Commission Company. The bankruptcy law of 1898 reads: "Any natural person, except a wage-earner or a person engaged chiefly In fanning or the tillage of the soil, any unincorporated company, and any '•nrporation engaged principally... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1190 pages
...entitled to the benefits of this act as a voluntary bankrupt' And by subsection b it is enacted that 'any natural person, except a wage-earner or a person...engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, * * * may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt upon default or an impartial trial, and shall be subject... | |
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