Uniform System of Bankruptcy: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Seventy-second Congress, First Session, on S. 3866 a Bill to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act to Establish a Uniform System of Bankruptcy Throughout the United States," Approved July 1, L898, and Acts Amendatory Thereof and Supplementary Thereto ... Printed for the Use of the Committee on the Judiciary

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Сторінка 260 - 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.
Сторінка 106 - A discharge in bankruptcy shall release a bankrupt from all of his provable debts, except such as (1) are due as a tax levied by the United States, the State, county, district, or municipality in which he resides...
Сторінка 8 - Any person who owes 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 engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, any unincorporated company, and any...
Сторінка 86 - State court having jurisdiction, and served within such State, upon a debt or claim from which his discharge in bankruptcy would not be a release, and in such case he shall be exempt from such arrest when in attendance upon a court of bankruptcy or engaged in the performance of a duty imposed by this Act.
Сторінка 76 - The bankruptcy of a corporation shall not release its officers, directors, or stockholders, as such, from any liability under the laws of a State or Territory or of the United States.
Сторінка 80 - This Act shall not affect the allowance to bankrupts of the exemptions which are prescribed by the State laws in force at the time of the filing of the petition...
Сторінка 277 - A bankrupt may offer, either before or after adjudication, terms of composition to his creditors, after, but not before, he has been examined in open court or at a meeting of his creditors, and has filed in court the schedule of his property and list of his creditors required to be filed by bankrupts.
Сторінка 17 - A petition filed under this chapter shall state that the debtor is insolvent or unable to pay his debts as they mature...
Сторінка 258 - ... and released from the same, and shall pass to the trustee as a part of the estate of the bankrupt, unless the court shall, on due notice, order that the right under such levy, judgment, attachment, or other lien shall be preserved for the benefit of the estate; and thereupon the same may pass to and shall be preserved by the trustee for the benefit of the estate as aforesaid.
Сторінка 282 - The judge may, upon the application of parties in interest filed at any time within six months after a composition has been confirmed, set the same aside and reinstate the case if it shall be made to appear upon a trial that fraud was practiced in the procuring of such composition, and that the knowledge thereof has come to the petitioners since the confirmation of such composition.

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