Administration of the Bankruptcy Act: Referees in Bankruptcy : Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and Reorganization of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session on H.R. 4394 |
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Page 305 - The court shall grant the discharge unless satisfied that the bankrupt has (1) committed an offense punishable by imprisonment as provided under this Act; or (2) destroyed, mutilated, falsified, concealed, or failed to keep or preserve books of account or records, from which his financial condition and business transactions might be ascertained, unless the court deems such acts or failure to have been justified under all the circumstances of the case...
Page 74 - It shall be the duty of the district judges promptly to carry out the directions of the council as to the administration of the business of their respective courts.
Page 283 - ... the appointment, whether an original appointment or a reappointment, shall be by the concurrence of a majority of all the judges of such court or of the courts of bankruptcy of such judicial districts, and where there is no such concurrence, then by the chief judge.
Page 74 - Provided, That the compensation of secretaries and law clerks of circuit and district judges shall be fixed by the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts without regard to the Classification Act of...
Page 74 - [t]o the end that the work of the district courts shall be effectively and expeditiously transacted," the circuit judges of each circuit were to meet as a council at least twice a year.
Page 306 - Act refused to obey any lawful order of, or to answer any material question approved by, the court; or (7) has failed to explain satisfactorily any losses of assets or deficiency of assets to meet his liabilities...
Page 148 - President, if he finds that any such judge is unable to discharge efficiently all the duties of his office by reason of mental or physical disability of permanent character...
Page 75 - The recommendations made by the Attorney General's committee, as stated in its summary at pages 117-120 of its report, to which reference is made in the report of the Judicial Conference, are as follows: I. There should be set up, in the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, a Division of Bankruptcy, headed by a Chief, to be appointed by the Director of the Administrative Office. A. The Division, in addition to the Chief, should include a staff of assistants adequate to enable the Chief...
Page 76 - States, but from funds derived from charges against bankrupt estates, collected by the clerks of the district courts, and paid into the United States Treasury, the system remaining self-supporting as it is today.
Page 72 - Resolved, That it is the sense of the Conference: "1. That there should be a complete call of the docket at least once every 6 months in each judicial district or in each division of a district where there are divisions. "2. That the provisions of the pre-trial procedure provided by rule 16 should be followed as far as practicable in connection with...