 | American literature - 1898 - 1252 pages
...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,... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 510 pages
...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1116 pages
...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 a rate... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 2058 pages
...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 in farming or the tillage of the soil, any unincorporated company, and any corporation engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1128 pages
...against an individual is defective If It omits to aver that the defendant was not a wage-earner nor a person engaged chiefly In farming or the tillage of the soil. Such a defect, however, can be corrected by amendment (Syllabus by the Court) In Bankruptcy. Henrv... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1182 pages
...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... | |
 | Appellate courts - 1900 - 810 pages
...Farmers. By the express terms of the act, a petition in Involuntary bankruptcy will not lie against "a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil." From the use of the word "chiefly" In this sentence, It appears to have been the intention of congress... | |
 | Orlando Bump - Bankruptcy - 1898 - 998 pages
...voluntary, fits of this Act as a voluntary bankrupt. -involuntary. ¿ дпу natural person, except a wage-earner or a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, any \inincorporated company, and any corporation engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing,... | |
 | Edwin Charles Brandenburg - Bankruptcy - 1898 - 744 pages
...(Sec. 63a.) Provision for filing the petition is made in section 59, a. b. 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,... | |
 | Law - 1898 - 858 pages
...benefit of the Act as a voluntary bankrupt, but involuntary or enforced bankruptcy is not to apply to a wage-earner, or a person engaged chiefly in farming-, or the tillage of the soil. Mercantile corporations are made subject to involuntary bankruptcy only in case they owe debts of $1,000... | |
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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... 
