Mississippi Digest Annotated: A Complete Digest of All Reported Mississippi Decisions from the Earliest Times to September 2, 1911, Volume 1Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1911 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 323 - That no creditor proving his debt or claim shall be allowed to maintain any suit at law or in equity therefor against the bankrupt, but shall be deemed to have waived all right of action and suit against the bankrupt, and all proceedings already commenced or unsatisfied judgments already obtained thereon, shall be deemed to be discharged and surrendered thereby...
Page 334 - That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to annul, destroy, or impair any lawful rights of married women, or minors, or any liens, mortgages, or other securities on property, real or personal, which may be valid by the laws of the States respectively, and which are not inconsistent with the provisions of the second and fifth sections of this act.
Page 41 - ... nature and extent of criminal responsibility therefor, and grounds of defense; and prosecution and punishment of such acts as public offenses.
Page 321 - A person shall be deemed to have given a preference if, being insolvent, he has procured or 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 521 - States, which declares that the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
Page 142 - Where the bill of exceptions does not purport to set out all the evidence...
Page 320 - Court. could not be said in a strict sense to have reasonable cause to believe that it was intended to give a preference. We assume, for purposes of decision, that such a case must be regarded as falling within the intent of the act.
Page 532 - The first section of the statute enacts "that all railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches in this state, shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white, and colored races, by providing two or more passenger coaches for each passenger train, or by dividing the passenger coaches by a partition so as to secure separate accommodations: provided, that this section shall not be construed to apply to street railroads.
Page 254 - If a citizen resident in this state shall be sued in any action, not local, out of the county of his household 'and residence, the venue shall be changed on his application, to the county of his household and residence.
Page 464 - ... which the animals, or either of them, may receive in consequence of any of them being wild, unruly, weak, escaping, or maiming each other, or from delays, or in consequence of heat, suffocation, or other ill effects of being crowded in the cars...