Judgments Delivered in the Courts of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, Том 1Little, Brown and Company, 1872 |
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Страница 555 - 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.
Страница 430 - ... the pilot so in doubt shall immediately signify the same by giving several short and rapid blasts of the steam whistle...
Страница 500 - When a creditor has a mortgage or pledge of real or personal property of the debtor, or a lien thereon, for securing the payment of a debt owing to him from the debtor, he shall be admitted as a creditor only for the balance of the debt...
Страница 334 - If, by accident, mistake or other cause, without fault of the assignee, either or both of the said second and third meetings should not be held within the times limited, the court may, upon motion of an interested party, order such meetings, with like effect as to the validity of the proceedings as if the meeting had been duly held.
Страница 416 - Any person who shall carry on the business of a distiller without having given bond as required by law, or who shall engage in or carry on the business of a distiller with intent to defraud the United States of the tax on the spirits distilled by him, or any part thereof...
Страница 115 - A ship trading from one port to another has not the means of carrying the goods on land ; and, according to the established course of trade, a delivery on the usual wharf is such a delivery as will discharge the carrier.
Страница 548 - Upon the whole, my opinion as to the general point is that in the consideration of this statute a commission of bankruptcy is nothing more than a substitution of the authority of the Lord Chancellor, enabling him to work out the payment of those creditors who could, by legal action or equitable suit, have compelled payment...
Страница 557 - ... and without further notice or demand, enter into and upon the said premises or any part thereof, in the name of the whole, and repossess the same as of their former estate...
Страница 442 - ... possession, custody, or care of books of account containing entries relating to the business of such person, or any other person he may deem proper...
Страница 242 - II., c. 7, it is enacted that " no tradesman, artificer, workman, laborer, or other person whatsoever, shall do or exercise any worldly labor, business, or work of their ordinary callings upon the Lord's day...