Word: bankrupt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...beyond recovery. The tenant supplied all the capital while the landlord merely held the position of rent-taker and did nothing in return. Because of this system there arose an insane competition to get land. The tenant offered more than he could pay and in a few years was bankrupt and evicted. In this way the price of the land increased out of all proportion to its value, and all produce except the potato went to the payment of the rent. Thus the potato was made the staple food on the peasant...
...June number of the Harvard Law Review, which has appeared recently, contains the following articles: "The Separate Estates of Non-Bankrupt Partners in the Bankruptcy of a Partnership under the Bankrupt Act of 1898," by Professor J. D. Brannan '69; "Rome and Law," by A. H. F. Lefroy; "A Phase of Accounting in Trade-Mark Cases," by G. Cunningham '87 and J. Warren...
...number of the Law Review contains the following: "An Early Decision on Intercolonial Rights"; "Distribution of Assets of Bankrupt Partnerships and Partners," by W. J. Shroder; "The Plaintiff's Illegal Act as a Defense in Actions of tort," by H. S. Davis; "Ancillary Receiverships in Bankruptcy," by L. M. Friedman...
...great problem of self government. Can she now calmly see done to them the worst injustice that can be done to any state--their land taken from them? The law never takes the mechanic's tools, the lawyer's books, nor can it take the home of the bankrupt. Once allow a European state a foot-hold in South America and it will be impossible to prevent its taking more and more or even destroying the republics. The justice of the Monroe Doctrine has been recognized by England, Germany, all the world. Why abandon it now when there...