Author: United States

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-13

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780260935229

Excerpt from Bankrupt Law of 1867 and Syllabus of Contents: Together With the Rules and Orders, and Forms and Proceedings in Bankruptcy, as Promulgated by the Supreme Court of the United States, With Alphabetical Index Be it enacted by the Senate and House 0 Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That t e provisions of second clause of the thirty-third section of said act shall not apply to the cases of proceedings in bankmp[t]cy commenced prior to the first day of January, ei hteen hundred and sixty-nine, and the time during which the operation of t e provisions of said clause is ostponed shall be extended until said first day of January, eighteen hun red and sixty-nine. And said clause is hereby so amended as to read as follows: In all proceedings in bankruptcy commenced after the first da of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, no discharge shall be graute to a debtor whose assets shall not be equal to fifty per centum of the claims proved against his estate upon which he shall be liable as the rinci al debtor, unless the assent in writing of a majority in number and valxixe of his creditors to whom he shall have become liable as principal debtor, and who shall have proved their claims, be filed in the case at or before the time of the hearing of the application for discharge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.