11 Words to use with bankruptcies

The firm could easily have compromised with its creditors; but Scott refused to hear of bankruptcy laws under which he could have taken refuge.

FINLETTER, THOMAS K. The law of bankruptcy reorganization.

Suffice it, that if I had failed to get this concession, I should have been an utterly ruined man, should have had to go through the bankruptcy court, should have been left without a penny.

SEE Gilbert, Frank B. Guide to Federal and bankruptcy practice.

Bankruptcy forms and practice.

The Collier bankruptcy manual.

To another brother-in-law, Bartholomew Dandridge, he lent money, and forgave the debt to the widow in his will, also giving her the use during her life of the thirty-three negroes he had bid in at the bankruptcy sale of her husband's property.

The bookselling trade seems on the edge of dissolution; the force of puffing can go no further; yet bankruptcy clamours at every door: sad fate!

[Footnote 5: Les Corbeaux, by Henri Becque, might perhaps be classed as a bankruptcy play, though the point of it is that the Vigneron family is not really bankrupt at all, but is unblushingly fleeced by the partner and the lawyer of the deceased Vigneron, who play into each other's hands.]

As things stand, the organism of the Reparations Commission, established by Schedule 2 of Part VIII of the Treaty of Versailles, is an absurd union of the conquerors (no longer allies, but reunited solely in a kind of bankruptcy procedure), who interpret the treaty in their own fashion, and can even modify the laws and regulations in the conquered countries.

There are statutes concerning the impressing of seamen; a bankruptcy act, a statute authorizing secular marriage without a priest or church ceremony, and the act for preferring veterans in the Spanish War in civil service, a statute which gives a respectable antiquity to our laws making a privileged class of veterans or the descendants of veterans of the Civil and Spanish Wars.

11 Words to use with  bankruptcies