 | Maryland - 1831 - 256 Seiten
...of insolvency, the United States, are not entitled to priority of payment, unless the insolvency be a legal and known insolvency, manifested by some notorious act of the debtor pursuant to law. Prince, v. Bartlett. 8 Cranch, It seems that a discharge under the act of assembly of Rhode Island,... | |
 | James Kent - 1832 - 590 Seiten
...insolvency which was to entitle the United States to a preference, was declared, in Prince v. Bartlett,* to mean a legal and known insolvency, manifested by...some notorious act of the debtor, pursuant to law. This was giving to the world some reasonable and definite test by which to ascertain the existence... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1838 - 850 Seiten
...that the term "insolvency," as used in the first acts, and " bankruptcy," as used in the latter actsj are synonymous terms. That priority must be confined...that insolvency must be understood to mean a legal, known insolvency, manifested by some notorious act of the debtor, pursuant to law; not a vague allegation... | |
 | United States - 1845 - 816 Seiten
...of insolvency the United States are not entitled to a priority of payment, unless the insolvency be a legal and known insolvency, manifested by some notorious act of the debtor, pursuant to the act of Congress. Prince ». Bartlett, S Cranch, 431 ; 3 Cond. Rep. 199. The United States are not... | |
 | United States - 1850 - 886 Seiten
...of insolvency the United States arc not entitled to a priority of payment, unless the insolvency be a legal and known insolvency, manifested by some notorious act of the debtor, pursuant to the act of Congress. Prince v. Bartlett, 8 Cranch, 431 ; 3 Cond. Rep. 199. The United States are not... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 792 Seiten
...case of insolvency the United States are not entitled to priority of payment unless the insolvency be a legal and known insolvency, manifested by some notorious act of the debtor, pursuant to the act of congress. Prince v. Bartlett, 8 Cranch, 431; 3 Cond. Rep. 199. 41. The word "insolvency"... | |
 | James Kent - 1866 - 724 Seiten
...insolvency which was to entitle the United States to a preference was declared, in Prince v. Bartlett, (b) to mean a legal and known insolvency, manifested by...some notorious act of the debtor, pursuant to law. This was giving to the world some reasonable and definite test by which to ascertain the existence... | |
 | James Kent - 1873 - 820 Seiten
...insolvency which was to entitle the United States to a preference was declared, in Prince v. Bartlett, (6) to mean a legal and known insolvency, manifested by...some notorious act of the debtor, pursuant to law. This was giving to the world some reasonable and definite test by which to ascertain the existence... | |
 | District of Columbia. Supreme Court (1863-1936), Franklin Hubbell Mackey - 1886 - 636 Seiten
...of insolvency, the United States are not entitled to priority of payment, unless the insolvency be a legal and known insolvency, manifested by some notorious act of the debtor pursuant to law. It must be a technical insolvency, of one of the three sorts indicated by sec. 3466. Prince vs. Bartlett,... | |
 | 1923 - 1096 Seiten
...was nevertheless denied by the Supreme Court, because the insolvency specified in the act of Congress "must be understood to mean a legal and known insolvency, manifested by some notorious act of the debtor." We think the decisions of the Supreme Court, extending^ over a period of more than 100 years, have... | |
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Bartlett,* to mean a legal and known insolvency, manifested by some notorious act of the debtor, pursuant to law. This was giving to the world some reasonable and definite test by which to ascertain the existence of the latent and dangerous preference... 
