 Any natural person, except a wage-earner, or a 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 pursuits,...  Principles of Law: Agency; Master and Servant; Bailments; Landlord and ... - Page 16by International Correspondence Schools - 1903Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1898 - 1252 pages
...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 - 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...principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, mining, or mercantile pursuits, owing debts to the amount of one thousand dollars or over, may be adjudged... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 2094 pages
...shall be entitled to the benefits of this act as a voluntary bankrupt. Subdivision "b" 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 au involuntary bankrupt, upon default, or an impartial trial, and shall be subject... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 2058 pages
...property are likely to be well known to his neighbors, and the opportunities for fraud are quite limited. Any unincorporated company, and any corporation engaged...printing, publishing, or mercantile pursuits, owing debts of ? 1.000, may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt. !So, too, may a private banker. This is merely... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 2094 pages
...manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, or mercantile pursuits." Cleage was not a wage-earner or a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, and he was therefore liable to an adjudication as an involuntary bankrupt whether or not he was principally... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1128 pages
...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 - 1904 - 1108 pages
...of July 1, 1898. c. 541, ! 4b, 30 Stat. 547 [U. 8. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3423], provides as follows : "Any natural person, except a wage earner or a person engaged chiefly in funning or the tillage of the soil ; any unincorporated company, any corporation engaged principally... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1200 pages
...that seems peculiarly applicable to the case at bar. After quoting from section 4 of the bankrupt act, "Any corporation engaged principally in manufacturing,...trading, printing, publishing, or mercantile pursuits * • * may be adJudged an involuntary bankrupt" the court says: "While the artificial atmosphere used... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1182 pages
...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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