The National Bankruptcy Register Reports: Containing All the Important Bankruptcy Decisions in the United StatesJ.R. McDivitt, 1875 - Bankruptcy |
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Page 115 - That no creditor proving his debt or claim shall be allowed to maintain any suit at law or in equity therefor against the bankrupt...
Page 92 - ... have had if no assignment had been made, shall, in virtue of the adjudication of bankruptcy and the appointment of his assignee, be at once vested in such assignee...
Page 131 - ... or makes any payment, pledge, assignment, transfer, or conveyance of any part of his property, either directly or indirectly, absolutely or conditionally — the person receiving such payment, pledge, assignment, transfer, or conveyance, or to be benefited thereby, or by such attachment...
Page 101 - In all cases of mutual debts or mutual credits between the estate of a bankrupt and a creditor the account shall be stated and one debt shall be set off against the other, and the balance only shall be allowed or paid.
Page 116 - No creditor whose debt is provable shall be allowed to prosecute to final judgment any suit at law or in equity therefor against the bankrupt until the question of the debtor's discharge shall have been determined...
Page 102 - When a creditor has a mortgage or pledge of real or personal property of the debtor, or a lien thereon...
Page 160 - The trustee shall, immediately upon entering upon his duties, prepare a complete inventory of all the property of the bankrupt that comes into his possession. The trustee shall make report to the court, within twenty days after receiving the notice of his appointment, of the articles set off to the bankrupt by him, according to the provisions of the forty-seventh section of the act, with the estimated value of each...
Page 131 - L. 534, chap. 176), which provides "that, if any person, being insolvent, or in contemplation of insolvency, within four months before the filing of the petition by or against him, with a view to give a preference...
Page 59 - The jurisdiction vested in the courts of the United States in the cases and proceedings hereinafter mentioned, shall be exclusive of the courts of the several States: First Of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States.
Page 163 - ... such check or warrant, with the date thereof, the sum drawn for, and the account for which it is drawn, shall be forthwith made in a. book kept for that purpose by the trustee or his clerk; and all checks and drafts shall be entered in the order of time in which they are drawn, and shall be numbered in the case of each estate.