United States Congressional Serial Set, Issue 10085U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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100.0 Full owners accompany H. R. adjudication administration amendment amount application appointed appropriation approved attorney authorized bankrupt bankruptcy bill H. R. bond bridge Bureau Chairman chapter claims Commerce Commission Commissioner Committee compensation Congress corporation cost court creditors debtor debtor in possession debts Department discharge District of Columbia duties EAST SOUTH CENTRAL effect employees enactment existing law Farm Credit Administration Federal filed following REPORT foreign Free funds Government helium House of Representatives Indians interest Interior judge July JULY 28 June June 15 jurisdiction land bank lien loan ment merchandise Mortgaged officers operation payment person petition proposed legislation Puerto Rico purposes received recommendation referred the bill REPORT To accompany Secretary of War securities Senate Stat stockholders subdivision submitted the following taxes Tenants Territory Territory of Hawaii thereof tion transfer Treasury trustee Union and ordered United Unknown vessels War Department Washington
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Page 29 - 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.
Page 1 - States as a holiday or as a day of public fasting or thanksgiving; (15) a person shall be deemed insolvent within the provisions of this act whenever the aggregate of his property, exclusive of any property which he may have conveyed, transferred, concealed, or removed, or permitted to be concealed or removed, with intent to defraud, hinder or delay his creditors, shall not, at a fair valuation, be sufficient in amount to pay his debts...
Page 18 - Debts owing to the United States, a State, a county, a district, or a municipality as a penalty or forfeiture shall not be allowed, except for the amount of the pecuniary loss sustained by the act, transaction, or proceeding out of which the penalty or forfeiture arose, with reasonable and actual costs occasioned thereby and such interest as may have accrued thereon according to law.
Page 39 - No producer, manufacturer, or dealer shall ship or deliver for shipment in commerce any goods produced in an establishment situated in the United States in or about which within thirty days prior to the removal of such goods therefrom any oppressive child labor has been employed...
Page 27 - Act and within four months prior to the filing of the petition, with the intent and purpose on his part to hinder, delay, or defraud his creditors, or any of them, shall be null and void as against the creditors of Buch debtor, except as to purchasers in good faith and for a present fair consideration...
Page 7 - ... submit to an examination concerning the conducting of his business, the cause of his bankruptcy, his dealings with his creditors and other persons, the amount, kind, and whereabouts of his property, and, in addition, all matters which may affect the administration and settlement of his estate; but no testimony given by him shall be offered in evidence against him in any criminal proceeding.
Page 8 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 8 - A suit which is founded upon a claim from which a discharge would be a release, and which is pending against a person at the time of the filing of a petition against him, shall be stayed until after an adjudication or the dismissal of the petition; if such person is adjudged a bankrupt, such action may be further stayed until twelve months after the date of such adjudication, or, if within that time such person applies for a discharge, then until the question of such discharge is determined.
Page 21 - ... the person receiving it or to be benefited thereby, or his agent acting therein shall then have reasonable cause to believe that the enforcement of such judgment or transfer would effect a preference, it shall be voidable by the trustee and he may recover the property or its value from such person.
Page 25 - Act; or if the dissolution of such lien would militate against the best interests of the estate of such person the same shall not be dissolved, but the trustee of the estate of such person, for the benefit of the estate, shall be...