 | 1898 - 1252 էջ
...except a corporation, shall be 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,... | |
 | 1921 - 510 էջ
...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... | |
 | 1899 - 2058 էջ
...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...tillage of the soil, any unincorporated company, and any corporation engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, or mercantile pursuits,... | |
 | 1902 - 1128 էջ
...be adjudged an involuntary 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... | |
 | 1904 - 1108 էջ
...Act July 1. 1898, c. 541, § 4b, 30 Stat 547 [US Comp. St 1901, p. 3423], providing that any natural person except a wage-earner or a person engaged chiefly in farmIng or the tillage of the soil, etc., may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt In Bankruptcy. The following is the referee's report... | |
 | 1903 - 1116 էջ
...other persons. Section 4b of the bankruptcy act authorizes involuntary proceedings against "any natural person, except a wageearner or a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil"; and section i (27) defines a wage-earner as "an individual who works for wages, salary or hire, at... | |
 | 1906 - 1122 էջ
...[US Comp. St. Supp. 1905, p. 683]), reads as follows: "Any natural person, except a wage-earner, or person engaged chiefly In farming or the tillage of the soil, any unincorporated company, and any corporation engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, mining, or mercantile... | |
 | 1907 - 2094 էջ
...principally in 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... | |
 | 1919 - 2026 էջ
...provisions of the Bankruptcy Act prior to the amendment of 1910. Since the amendment, which provides that "any moneyed, business or commercial corporation,...municipal, railroad, insurance or banking corporation, * » * niay be adjudged, an Involuntary bankrupt," the adjudication of such corporations has become... | |
 | 1912 - 1182 էջ
...the benefits of this act as a 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... | |
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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... 
