 | American literature - 1898 - 1252 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
...Banknipts. a. 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...tillage of the soil, any unincorporated company, and any corporation engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, or mercantile pursuits,... | |
 | 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 - 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 - 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 - 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... | |
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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 or mercantile pursuits, owing... 
