Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, for the Seventh Judicial Circuit, Volume 5Callaghan, 1876 |
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Page 68
... bankruptcy commenced after the filing of the bill and service of the subpoena . In Storm vs. Waddell , 2 Sanford's Chancery Reports , 494 , it is decided that if a judgment creditor files his bill and duly prosecutes his suit , he ...
... bankruptcy commenced after the filing of the bill and service of the subpoena . In Storm vs. Waddell , 2 Sanford's Chancery Reports , 494 , it is decided that if a judgment creditor files his bill and duly prosecutes his suit , he ...
Page 79
... BANKRUPTCY . 1. PETITION BY PART OF A FIRM . - One or more partners may file their petition in bankruptcy without making the others parties , but notice of the pendency of the proceedings must be given to the other partners . 2. The ...
... BANKRUPTCY . 1. PETITION BY PART OF A FIRM . - One or more partners may file their petition in bankruptcy without making the others parties , but notice of the pendency of the proceedings must be given to the other partners . 2. The ...
Page 80
... bankruptcy , there would be assets . " But I cannot regard this as a proceeding to have the firm declared bankrupt . If it were such , the outstanding partner might be able to show that it was not bankrupt . I think the petition might ...
... bankruptcy , there would be assets . " But I cannot regard this as a proceeding to have the firm declared bankrupt . If it were such , the outstanding partner might be able to show that it was not bankrupt . I think the petition might ...
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... bankruptcy proceedings . Trover by the assignee against American and Smith , judg- ment creditors of the bankrupt , to recover the value of per- sonal property levied upon by the sheriff under an execution . from the Superior Court of ...
... bankruptcy proceedings . Trover by the assignee against American and Smith , judg- ment creditors of the bankrupt , to recover the value of per- sonal property levied upon by the sheriff under an execution . from the Superior Court of ...
Page 87
... bankruptcy , and it made no difference how secret that act might be ( it might be entirely unknown to the officer who took the property ) if there had been an act of bankruptcy prior to the time when the sheriff took posses- sion of the ...
... bankruptcy , and it made no difference how secret that act might be ( it might be entirely unknown to the officer who took the property ) if there had been an act of bankruptcy prior to the time when the sheriff took posses- sion of the ...
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Page 46 - L. 78) declares, that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity...
Page 75 - In all cases where the rules prescribed by this Court, or by the Circuit Court, do not apply, the practice of the Circuit Court shall be regulated by the present practice of the High Court of Chancery in England, so far as the same may reasonably be applied consistently with the local circumstances and local convenience of the district where the 'Court is held, not as positive rules, but as furnishing just analogies to regulate the practice.
Page 400 - When the action is between herself and her husband, she may sue or be sued alone; 3.
Page 502 - ... its shareholders or creditors; and all payments of money to either, made after the commission of an act of insolvency, or in contemplation thereof, made with a view to prevent the application of its assets in the manner prescribed by this chapter, or with a view to the preference of one creditor to another, except in payment of its circulating notes, shall be utterly null and void...
Page 37 - ... shall be exempt from forced sale on execution, or any other final process from a court, for any debt contracted after the adoption of this constitution.
Page 381 - It is true that a statute, containing a prohibition and a penalty, makes the act which it punishes unlawful, and the same may be implied from a penalty without a prohibition ; but it does not follow that the unlawfulness of the act was meant by the legislature to avoid a contract made in contravention of it. When the statute is silent, and contains nothing from which the contrary can be properly inferred, a contract in contravention of it is void.
Page 324 - That no debt created by the fraud or embezzlement of the bankrupt, or by his defalcation as a public officer, or while acting in any fiduciary character, shall be discharged under this act...
Page 502 - suits, actions, and proceedings by and against any association under this act may be had in any circuit, district, or territorial court of the United States held within the district in which such association may be established.
Page 501 - ... to take any captured vessel, any arms or munitions of war or other material...
Page 448 - ... exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation or trade of the United States, where the seizures are made, on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons burthen, within their respective districts as well as upon the high seas...