United States v. Herron
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case being thus: The Bankrupt Act of 1867 — which in its general outlines, as in many of its details, follows (as did prior Bankrupt Acts of the United States passed in 1800 and 1841), the.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case being thus: The Bankrupt Act of 1867 — which in its general outlines, as in many of its details, follows (as did prior Bankrupt Acts of the United States passed in 1800 and 1841), the. British Bankrupt Acts — emicts that a discharge duly granted under the act shall, with the exceptions of debts created by the .fraud or embezzlement of the bankrupt or by his defalcation as a public officer, or while acting in any fiduciary character, “ release the bankrupt from all debts, claims, liabilities, and demands which were or might…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Proceedings in bankruptcy are deemed to be commenced from the filing of the petition in bankruptcy, either by a debtor in his own behalf or by any creditor against a debtor; and if it appear to the court that the bankrupt has in all things conformed to the requirements of the Bankrupt Act, it is made the duty of the court to grant him a certificate, under the seal of the court, that he be forever discharged from all debts and claims that by said act are provable against his estate, which existed on the day the petition for adjudication was filed, excepting such debts, if any, as' are by said…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- United States v. HoarU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1821
- United States v. KnightSupreme Court of the United States · 1840
- Commonwealth v. BaldwinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1832
- United States v. DavisU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Michigan · 1844
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