Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the District Courts of the United States Within the Second Circuit, Volume 5Baker, Voorhis, 1874 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 420 - And no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against an inhabitant of the United States, by any original process in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving the writ...
Page 435 - Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors In all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it...
Page 171 - ... the court in which the petition is first filed, having jurisdiction, shall take and retain jurisdiction over all proceedings in such bankruptcy until the same shall be closed; and if such petitions shall be filed in the same district, action shall be first had upon the one first filed.
Page 393 - ... or to defeat the object of, or in any way impair, hinder, impede, or delay the operation and effect of, or to evade any of the provisions of this act, the sale, assignment, transfer, or conveyance shall be void, and the assignee may recover the property or the value thereof as assets of the bankrupt.
Page 170 - ... petition may be amended by inserting an allegation of an act of bankruptcy committed at an earlier date than that first alleged, if such earlier act is charged in either of the other petitions...
Page 3 - ... he shall be admitted as a creditor only for the balance of the debt...
Page 190 - ... settlement, sufficient available assets are not left for the payment of the settlor's debts, then the law infers intent, and it would be the duty of a judge, in leaving the case to the jury, to tell the jury that they must presume that that was the intent. Again, if, at the date of the settlement, the person making the settlement was not in a position actually to pay his creditors, the law would infer that he intended, by making the voluntary settlement, to defeat and delay them.
Page 561 - ... with intent to give a preference to one or more of his creditors...
Page 449 - No dissolution of such partnership, by the acts of the parties, shall take place previous to the time specified in the certificate of its formation or in the certificate of its renewal, until a notice of such dissolution shall have been filed and recorded in the office of the...
Page 190 - ... be adjudged fraudulent as against creditors or purchasers solely on the ground that it was not founded on a valuable consideration.