The Federal Reporter, Volume 270

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West Publishing Company, 1921 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 80 - That all levies, judgments, attachments, or other liens obtained through legal proceedings against a person who is insolvent, at any time within four months prior to the filing of a petition in bankruptcy against him, shall be deemed null and void in case he is adjudged a bankrupt...
Page 629 - ... willful and malicious injuries to the person or property of another...
Page 629 - A discharge in bankruptcy shall release a bankrupt from all of his provable debts...
Page 594 - ... particularly point out and distinctly claim the part, improvement, or combination which he claims as his invention or discovery.
Page 736 - That the Constitution of the United States, and all the laws thereof which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory as elsewhere in the United States...
Page 248 - ... 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 pursuits, owing debts to the amount of one thousand dollars or over, may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt upon default or an impartial trial, and shall be subject to the provisions and entitled to the benefits of this Act.
Page 790 - That the foregoing definition shall not extend to dealcoholized wine nor to any beverage or liquid produced by the process by which beer, ale, porter, or wine is produced, if it contains less than one-half of 1 per centum of alcohol by volume, and is...
Page 790 - State relating to intoxicating liquors, the word "liquor" or the phrase "intoxicating liquor" shall be construed to include alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, gin, beer, ale, porter, and wine, and in addition thereto any spirituous, vinous, malt, or fermented liquor, liquids, and compounds, whether medicated, proprietary, patented or not, and by whatever name called containing one-half of one per centum, or more of alcohol by volume which are fit for use for beverage purposes...
Page 174 - A licensed physician or surgeon cannot without the consent of his patient, be examined in a civil action as to any information acquired in attending the patient, which was necessary to enable him to prescribe or act for the patient...
Page 573 - At the close of all the evidence the defendant moved for a directed verdict in his favor, on the ground that it affirmatively appeared that plaintiff was not a passenger of the Pullman Company.

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