 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Judgments - 1874 - 688 pages
...Littlofield u. Nichols, 42 Cal. 372. 3 Shotwell v. Murray, 1 Johns. Ch, 512. o Bruce v. Vogle, 38 Mo. 100. ' revenue officer, or other person, hereafter becoming indebted to the United States, shall become insolvent, or where the estate of any deceased debtor in the hands of his executor or... | |
 | Alexander James Dallas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 856 pages
...under the laws thereof." The fifth section of the act of March 3, 1797 (1 Stat. 515), enacts, — " That where any revenue officer or other person hereafter...or administrators shall be insufficient to pay all 622 LEWIS, TRUSTEE, v. UNITED STATES. [Sup. Ct a self-evident truth. The logic may mislead or confuse.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 758 pages
...receivers of public money." Vol. 3, p. 4¿3. The section is in these words: "And be it further enacted, that where any revenue officer, or other person, hereafter becoming indebted to the I'nitcd States, by bond or otherwise, shall become insolvent, or where the estate of any deceased debtor,... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Assignments (Law) - 1882 - 906 pages
...acts of March 3, 1797, and March 2, 1799. By the former it was declared (§ 5) that " where any person becoming indebted to the United States, by bond or otherwise, shall become insolvent, the debt due to the United States shall be first satisfied,;" and the priority given by the act was... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 408 pages
...the United States and receivers of public money," declares (§ 5), "That where any revenue-officer, or other person, hereafter becoming indebted to the...of any deceased debtor, in the hands of executors of administrators, shall be insufficient to pay all the debts due from the deceased, the debt due to... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, David Shephard Garland - Law - 1888 - 1002 pages
...illustration of this latter use of the term. It declares that the priority of the United States shall attach ' where the estate of any deceased debtor in the hands...insufficient to pay all the debts due from the deceased.' Here the word 'due' is plainly used as synonymous with 'owing.' . . . Now, if the term ' due,' in reference... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 802 pages
...These acts gave a preference to the United States, in all cases of insolvency, or •where any estate in the hands of executors, or administrators, shall be insufficient to pay all the debts of the deceased; and it was declared, that the case of insolvency referred to, should be deemed to... | |
 | Irving Browne - National banks (U.S.) - 1889 - 824 pages
...Ill— 96. Henderson v. Myers. act of Cougress of March 3, 1797, section 5, provided that where any " person hereafter becoming indebted to the United States...any deceased debtor, in the hands of executors or administrator*, shall be insufficient to pay all the debts due from the deceased, the debt due to the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 916 pages
...first satisfied. Ibid. This was followed by the Act of Congress of March 3, 1797, providing that when any revenue officer or other person hereafter becoming...States, by bond or otherwise, shall become insolvent, or when the estate of any deceased debtor, in the bauds of executors or administrators, shall be Insufficient... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 604 pages
...their natural and usual sense, would embrace the case before the courtseems not to be controverted. 'Any revenue officer, or other person, hereafter becoming...indebted to the United States by bond or otherwise' is ¡i description of persons which, if neither explained or restricted by other words or circumstances,... | |
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That where any revenue-officer, or other person, hereafter becoming indebted to the United States, by bond or otherwise... 
