...on a Sunday, to take him. Arson .... the wilfully and maliciously burning of a house. Bankrupt ... a trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts, tending to defeat his creditors. Pailment ... a delivery of goods on trust, as a parcel to a common carrier. Bribery...

...Latin ruplus, broken. One 95 whose bench or counter (place of business) is broken up. In English law, a trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. 2 Bl. Com. 285, 471; Burrill's Law Die. BANKRUPT; 4 Inst. Ch. 63 ; Story's Const. § 1112; Cooke's...

...Latin ruptus, broken. One 95 whose bench or counter (place of business) is broken up. In English law, a trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. 2 Bl. Com. 285, 471 ; Burrill's Law Die. BANKRUPT; 4 Inst. Ch. 63; Story's Const. § 1112; Cooke's...

...THE LAW IN REFERENCE TO PERSONS LIABLE TO BE ADJUDGED BANKRUPT. FORMERLY a bankrupt was defined to be "a trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts, tending to defraud his creditors''^). Blackstone says, that the laws of bankruptcy were considered as laws calculated for the benefit of...

...parlies to these instruments specified 468-470 CHAPTER XXXI. OF TITLE BY BANKRUPTCY 471-489 a bankrupt is a trader who secretes himself or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors 471 history of the bankrupt laws, 472-475 what constitutes a trader 476 the acts which constitute a...

...Scribo I write scrib scribe, inscribe. Seriptus written script scripture, postscript. " A bankrupt is defined a trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors." — Blackstone. The terms rustic and rural differ in their application, the first being said of persons,...

...bench is broken, the last condition of commercial destitution : — " A bankrupt is defined a tradar who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors." — £{осЫоне. The terms rustic and rural differ in their application, the first being said of...

...forfeited, is that of bankruptcy, or the act of becoming a bankrupt : which unfortunate person may from the several descriptions given of him in our statute law, be thus defined; *a I Feud. I. 2. t. 26. in cats. 6 8 Rep. 99. Co. Copyh. { 87. m 3 Leon. 108. Dyer. 211. t Feud. I. 2....

...Encyc. [1860], or forme banquerovte, a word of disputed etymology). The bankrupt, says Blackstone, "is a trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors." (Fraud is also implied in France by the use of bangueroutier as distinguished from the simple failli)....

...liberty as to his person, or body. S. What is the definition of a bankrupt ? — 4'/ 7. A bankrupt is a trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. 4. By what acts may a man become a bankrupt t — 478, 479. The particular acts of 'bankruptcy, which...