Download or read book Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Bankruptcy Law written by Francis Regis Noel and published by Washington, D.C. : C.H. Potter. This book was released on 1919 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Debt s Dominion written by David A. Skeel Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bankruptcy in America, in stark contrast to its status in most other countries, typically signifies not a debtor's last gasp but an opportunity to catch one's breath and recoup. Why has the nation's legal system evolved to allow both corporate and individual debtors greater control over their fate than imaginable elsewhere? Masterfully probing the political dynamics behind this question, David Skeel here provides the first complete account of the remarkable journey American bankruptcy law has taken from its beginnings in 1800, when Congress lifted the country's first bankruptcy code right out of English law, to the present day. Skeel shows that the confluence of three forces that emerged over many years--an organized creditor lobby, pro-debtor ideological currents, and an increasingly powerful bankruptcy bar--explains the distinctive contours of American bankruptcy law. Their interplay, he argues in clear, inviting prose, has seen efforts to legislate bankruptcy become a compelling battle royale between bankers and lawyers--one in which the bankers recently seem to have gained the upper hand. Skeel demonstrates, for example, that a fiercely divided bankruptcy commission and the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress have yielded the recent, ideologically charged battles over consumer bankruptcy. The uniqueness of American bankruptcy has often been noted, but it has never been explained. As different as twenty-first century America is from the horse-and-buggy era origins of our bankruptcy laws, Skeel shows that the same political factors continue to shape our unique response to financial distress.
Download or read book Federal Bankruptcy Law written by Bernard D. Reams (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Bankruptcy Law written by Bernard D. Reams and published by William S. Hein. This book was released on 1998 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents more than 340 documentson the major and minor legislation covering the period of1987-1996. The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994 was the mostsignificant bankruptcy legislation in more than 16 years.The National Bankruptcy Commission's report "Bankruptcy:The Next Twenty Years", is included in its entirety, as wellas a series of amendments prior to the 1994 Act.
Download or read book Bankruptcy in United States History written by Charles Warren and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Bankruptcy Law written by Francis Regis Noel and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. BANKRUPTCY LEGISLATION IN THE COLONIES AND IN THE STATES PRIOR TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.* In the early stages of any novel enterprise at all hazardous to human life, as was colonization in America, the natural tendency is towards an intimate and confidential inter-dependence of those who brave the dangers. This condition prevailed in the infancy of the colonies, and in many of them the political status was absolutely communistic. In noticing this fact Doyle cites the case of Plymouth colony. The spirit of that progressive settlement encouraged the growth of industrial and commercial systems.1 As in Virginia, New Netherland and most of the other provinces all members of the community worked as an organized band under the direction of the governor; all produce was poured into the common store-house and out of it the settlers were supplied, while the surplus became the general or the profits of the company. The institution resembled the old, and, perhaps, fabulous Teutonic village or Mark, as modified by the English manorial system. Governor Hutchinson describes the social conditions of early Massachusetts, especially as they affected the administration of the laws.2 Under these primitive conditions little or no cause existed for invoking any law for the collection of debts; but this elysian state did not endure, and before long the little communities began to feel the evils which, in a proportionate degree, afflict older and larger states. As usual the reaction was oppo * "It is said the Colonial and State legislatures have been in the habit of passing laws of this description for more than a century," Marshall, C. J., in Sturges vs. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat., 122-208, (1819). 1 The industrial system and also the...
Download or read book A History of the Bankruptcy Law written by Francis Regis Noel and published by William s Hein & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparatively full account of colonial legislation and practice and of the proceedings in the Constitutional Convention is given, and the latter half of the book summarizes briefly the four successive bankruptcy statutes of the United States.
Download or read book The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors written by Elizabeth Lee Thompson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a careful empirical study of nearly four thousand cases filed in three southern federal districts, this book focuses on how the Bankruptcy Act of 1867 helped shape the course and outcome of Reconstruction. Although passed by a Republican-dominated Congress that was commonly viewed as punitive toward the post-Civil War South, the Bankruptcy Act was a great benefit to southerners. In this first study of the operation of the 1867 Act, Elizabeth Lee Thompson challenges previous works, which maintain that nineteenth-century southerners uniformly opposed federal bankruptcy laws as threatening extensions of federal power. To the contrary, Thompson finds that southerners, faced with the war’s devastation, were more likely to file for bankruptcy than debtors in other parts of the country. The Act thus was the major piece of federal economic legislation that benefited southerners during Reconstruction. Thompson determines that because the vast majority of the Bankruptcy Act’s southern beneficiaries were propertied white men, the legislation served to stabilize and entrench the postwar economic--and thus social and political--power of the sector that included those who were recently leading secessionists and Confederates. Their participation in a federal process, through federal tribunals, during an era of intense white southern opposition to policies emanating from Washington reveals the complex interaction of states' rights ideology and self-interest. However, Thompson shows, white southerners ultimately sacrificed neither in relation to the Bankruptcy Act. After thousands had received economic relief through the statute and the number of filings had slowed to a trickle, southern congressmen supported the Act’s repeal in 1878.
Download or read book The Bankruptcy Law written by James Lord Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bankrupt in America written by Mary Eschelbach Hansen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, more than two million Americans—six out of every 1,000 people—filed for bankruptcy. Though personal bankruptcy rates have since stabilized, bankruptcy remains an important tool for the relief of financially distressed households. In Bankrupt in America, Mary and Brad Hansen offer a vital perspective on the history of bankruptcy in America, beginning with the first lasting federal bankruptcy law enacted in 1898. Interweaving careful legal history and rigorous economic analysis, Bankrupt in America is the first work to trace how bankruptcy was transformed from an intermittently used constitutional provision, to an indispensable tool for business, to a central element of the social safety net for ordinary Americans. To do this, the authors track federal bankruptcy law, as well as related state and federal laws, examining the interaction between changes in the laws and changes in how people in each state used the bankruptcy law. In this thorough investigation, Hansen and Hansen reach novel conclusions about the causes and consequences of bankruptcy, adding nuance to the discussion of the relationship between bankruptcy rates and economic performance.
Download or read book Legislative History written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and published by William S. Hein. This book was released on 1979 with total page 13108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of federal legislative documents concerned withthe policies and legislative intent underlining the new Act.Has been cited by several circuit courts of appeal as pre-eminent source.William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 1979
Download or read book Legislative History of the Bankruptcy Act of 1898 P L 55 541 30 Stat 544 July 1 1898 written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Bankruptcy Act of 1841 written by Terri Diane Halperin and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
