... any corporation engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, mining, or mercantile pursuits, owing debts to the amount of one thousand dollars or over, may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt upon default or an impartial trial,... The World Almanac and Book of Facts - Page 2111902Full view - About this book
| Albert Hutchinson Putney - 1908 - 396 pages
...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...principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, mining, or mercantile pursuits, owing debts to the amount of one thousand dollars or over, may be adjudged... | |
| Albert H. Putney - 1908 - 394 pages
...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...principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, mining, or mercantile pursuits, owing debts to the amount of one thousand dollars or over, may be adjudged... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1908 - 732 pages
...in appellant's answer: Whether the bankrupt was within the exceptions of the statute, that is, was a wage-earner or a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil ; whether he had committed an act of bankruptcy by permitting appellant to obtain an execution against... | |
| Prescott Farnsworth Hall - 1908 - 740 pages
...petitions against corporations engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, mining, or mercantile pursuits, owing debts to the amount of one thousand dollars or over. 14«1 Under it a decision was made that a judgment "ss Supra, § 2; infra, § 96. <«» So held as... | |
| Burritt Hamilton - 1909 - 478 pages
...83 . But any corporation engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, mining or mercantile pursuits, owing debts to the amount...or over, may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt, if guilty of an act of bankruptcy 84 . §111. Remedies in Equity. Irrespective of the adequacy of the... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1910 - 738 pages
...Bankrupt Act, as amended by § 3 of the act of February 5, 1903, c. 487, 32 Stat. 797, reads thus: "Any natural person, except a wage-earner, or a person...principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, mining or mercantile pursuits, owing debts to the amount of one thousand dollars or over, may be adjudged... | |
| 1910 - 740 pages
...487, US Сотр. Stat. Supp. 1909, p. 1309], reads thus: "Any natural person, except a wage earner, or a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage...principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, mining or mercantile pursuits, owing debts to the amount of one thousand dollars or over, may be adjudged... | |
| John Aldrich Chamberlain, American School, Chicago - 1910 - 348 pages
...their creditors. The United States statute provides that: "Any natural person, except a wage earner, or a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage...principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, mining or mercantile pursuits, owing debts to the amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or over,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1910 - 110 pages
...amendment undertakes to reclassify those who may become bankrupts. The present law reads, in that respect : Any natural person, except a wage-earner or a person...chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, any unincprporate company, and any corporation engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing,... | |
| Texas. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1910 - 296 pages
...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, * * * may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt upon default or an impartial trial, and shall be subject... | |
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