2013, ISBN: 1130686302

[EAN: 9781130686302], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers … More...

[EAN: 9781130686302], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. 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. 1844 edition. Excerpt: .and has done no more upon this head than to supply defects in definition, so as to include all who may properly come under that term. (Eden Bankr. Law, XIV.) Bell, in his commentary on the laws of Scotland, says, bankruptcy is a status or condition fixed by legislative provision. Bell s Com. 214, and see p. 161,2.) Crabb, in his English Synonymes, points out the distinction which has been mentioned between bankruptcy and insolvency; 1.nd he did not speak as a lawyer, but as a master of language. Thus we find that the philologists and lawyers are agreed upon this point; and there is certainly no reason why they should difi er, for the English word bankrupt had its origin in the incidents of trade and commerce, and has come down to us in that connection, and through the medium of the laws. It is quite clear, therefore, that whatever secondary or figurative meaning the word may have acquired, its primary, and its only legal signification, is that which confines it to traders. Now what can be opposed to these authorities .Z Doctor Johnson defines bankruptcy thus-- 1. The state of a man broken, or bankrupt. 2. The act of declaring one s self bankrupt. The adjective bankrupt he defines thus-- in debt beyond the PWer of payment; and the verb--- to break; to disable one from satisfying his creditors. Although he has omitted to specify a particular class of persons, he has not said that the word is applicable alike to all classes; and his want of entire accumy cannot prove much, for he has come nearer to the pomt than layman usually do When they venture upon the definition of legal terms. There are some other lexicographers of far less celebrity, who, in compiling books for.<

2013, ISBN: 1130686302

[EAN: 9781130686302], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers c… More...

[EAN: 9781130686302], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.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. 1844 edition. Excerpt: .and has done no more upon this head than to supply defects in definition, so as to include all who may properly come under that term. (Eden Bankr. Law, XIV.) Bell, in his commentary on the laws of Scotland, says, bankruptcy is a status or condition fixed by legislative provision. Bell s Com. 214, and see p. 161,2.) Crabb, in his English Synonymes, points out the distinction which has been mentioned between bankruptcy and insolvency; 1.nd he did not speak as a lawyer, but as a master of language. Thus we find that the philologists and lawyers are agreed upon this point; and there is certainly no reason why they should difi er, for the English word bankrupt had its origin in the incidents of trade and commerce, and has come down to us in that connection, and through the medium of the laws. It is quite clear, therefore, that whatever secondary or figurative meaning the word may have acquired, its primary, and its only legal signification, is that which confines it to traders. Now what can be opposed to these authorities .Z Doctor Johnson defines bankruptcy thus-- 1. The state of a man broken, or bankrupt. 2. The act of declaring one s self bankrupt. The adjective bankrupt he defines thus-- in debt beyond the PWer of payment; and the verb--- to break; to disable one from satisfying his creditors. Although he has omitted to specify a particular class of persons, he has not said that the word is applicable alike to all classes; and his want of entire accumy cannot prove much, for he has come nearer to the pomt than layman usually do When they venture upon the definition of legal terms. There are some other lexicographers of far less celebrity, who, in compiling books for.<