Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, First-second Sessions ...U. S. Government print, Office, 1925 |
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... Sawa , sr . , was charged with the violation of the national prohi- bition act in two informations which had been ... Sawa case and advised that the judgment order sentencing Sawa to jail should be set aside and a fine imposed according ...
... Sawa , sr . , was charged with the violation of the national prohi- bition act in two informations which had been ... Sawa case and advised that the judgment order sentencing Sawa to jail should be set aside and a fine imposed according ...
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... Sawa from jail immediately , which directions were carried out ; Sawa was discharged , but the original record still stands against him . OTHER HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS Twenty - sixth . In violation of his oath of office and the ...
... Sawa from jail immediately , which directions were carried out ; Sawa was discharged , but the original record still stands against him . OTHER HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS Twenty - sixth . In violation of his oath of office and the ...
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... Sawa matter . Mr. BROWN . It was during the May term of the United States District Court of the Northern District of West Virginia , 1922 , that what we know as the Sawa case came up for consideration . Mike Sawa was brought into the ...
... Sawa matter . Mr. BROWN . It was during the May term of the United States District Court of the Northern District of West Virginia , 1922 , that what we know as the Sawa case came up for consideration . Mike Sawa was brought into the ...
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... Sawa , asking him this question , referring to the moonshine : " Did you make it ? " And Sawa answered , as he did most of the questions , " Yah . " At that time I retired from the court room . I was called into the district attorney's ...
... Sawa , asking him this question , referring to the moonshine : " Did you make it ? " And Sawa answered , as he did most of the questions , " Yah . " At that time I retired from the court room . I was called into the district attorney's ...
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... Sawa case . " He said , " How was that ? " I said , " You gave him a sentence of four months in the Ohio County Jail for having possession of a moonshine still , and the law does not permit imprisonment for the possession of a moonshine ...
... Sawa case . " He said , " How was that ? " I said , " You gave him a sentence of four months in the Ohio County Jail for having possession of a moonshine still , and the law does not permit imprisonment for the possession of a moonshine ...
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Page 26 - ... suffered a judgment to be entered against himself in favor of any person, or made a transfer of any of his property, and the effect of the enforcement of such judgment or transfer will be to enable any one of his creditors to obtain a greater percentage of his debt than any other of such creditors of the same class.
Page 9 - Acts of bankruptcy by a person shall consist of his having (1) conveyed, transferred, concealed, or removed, or permitted to be concealed or removed, any part of his property with intent to hinder, delay, or defraud his creditors...
Page 17 - The court shall order the trustee to pay all taxes legally due and owing by the bankrupt to the United States, state, county, district, or municipality in advance of the payment of dividends to creditors...
Page 11 - ... a person shall be deemed insolvent within the provisions of this act whenever the aggregate of his property, exclusive of any property which he may have conveyed, transferred, concealed, or removed, or permitted to be concealed or removed, with intent to defraud, hinder or delay his creditors, shall not, at a fair valuation, be sufficient in amount to pay his debts.
Page 13 - ... parties in interest a reasonable opportunity to be fully heard; and investigate the merits of the application and discharge the applicant, unless he has...
Page 17 - Claims shall not be proved against a bankrupt estate subsequent to one year after the adjudication; or if they are liquidated by litigation and the final judgment therein is rendered within thirty days before or after the expiration of such time, then within sixty days after the rendition of such judgment: Provided, That the right of infants and insane persons without guardians, without notice of the proceedings, may continue six months longer. SEC. 58. NOTICES TO CREDITORS. — a Creditors shall...
Page 98 - No corporation shall issue stocks or bonds except for money, labor done, or money or property actually received, and all fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void.
Page 13 - Any person may, after the expiration of one month and within the next twelve months subsequent to being adjudged a bankrupt, file an application for a discharge in the court of bankruptcy in which the proceedings are pending ; if it shall be made to appear to the judge that the bankrupt was unavoidably prevented from filing it within such time, it may be filed within but not after the expiration of the next six months.
Page 12 - Such time shall not expire until four months after (1) the date of the recording or registering of the transfer or assignment when the act consists in having made a transfer of any of his property with intent to hinder, delay, or defraud his creditors or for the purpose of giving a preference as hereinbefore provided, or a general assignment for the benefit of his creditors, if by law such recording or registering is required or permitted, or, if it is not, from the date when the beneficiary takes...
Page 98 - Any creditor of the corporation may institute joint or several actions against any of its stockholders, for the proportion of his claim payable by each, and in such action the court must ascertain the proportion of the claim or debt for which each defendant is liable, and a several judgment must be rendered against each, in conformity therewith.