 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...  The Federal Reporter - Page 1231906Full 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 - 1909 - 2094 pages
...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 - 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
...etc., owing debts to the amount of $1,000 or over, may be adjudged an Involuntary bankrupt. Held, that a person engaged chiefly In farming or the tillage of the soil should be construed to apply only to natural persons, and not to corporations. 2. SAME — EVIDENCE.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Appellate courts - 1900 - 810 pages
...Farmers. By the express terms of the act, a petition in Involuntary bankruptcy will not lie against "a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil." From the use of the word "chiefly" In this sentence, It appears to have been the intention of congress... | |
 | Law - 1898 - 858 pages
...Act as a voluntary bankrupt, but involuntary or enforced bankruptcy is not to apply to a wage-earner, or a person engaged chiefly in farming-, or the tillage of the soil. Mercantile corporations are made subject to involuntary bankruptcy only in case they owe debts of $1,000... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black - Bankruptcy - 1898 - 350 pages
...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 corporation engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing,... | |
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