Act of Mar. 2, 1867, ch. 176, 14 Stat. 517
The 50-section original 1867 enactment, each of the ten amendments (one in 1868, two in 1870, two in 1872, two in 1873, one in 1874, two in 1876) and its 1878 repeal. Every entry links to the page images from the United States Statutes at Large; where a transcription has been prepared, it links to that too and to a page with the full text.
Bankruptcy Act of 1867
1867–1878
Act of Mar. 2, 1867, ch. 176, 14 Stat. 517
An Act to establish a uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States
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Act of July 27, 1868, ch. 258, 15 Stat. 227
An Act in Amendment of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven
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Act of June 30, 1870, ch. 177, 16 Stat. 173
An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approved March 2, 1867
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Act of July 14, 1870, ch. 262, 16 Stat. 276
An Act in Amendment of the Act entitled “An Act establishing an uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States”
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Act of June 8, 1872, ch. 339, 17 Stat. 334
An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States”
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Act of June 8, 1872, ch. 340, 17 Stat. 334
An Act to declare the true Intent and Meaning of Section Two of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven
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Act of Feb. 13, 1873, ch. 135, 17 Stat. 436
An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven
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Act of Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 235, 17 Stat. 577
An Act to declare the true Intent and Meaning of the Act approved June eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, amendatory of the General Bankrupt Law
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Act of June 22, 1874, ch. 390, 18 Stat. 178
An act to amend and supplement an act entitled “An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other purposes
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Act of Apr. 14, 1876, ch. 62, 19 Stat. 33
An act concerning cases in bankruptcy commenced in the supreme courts of the several Territories prior to the twenty-second day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and now undetermined therein
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Act of July 26, 1876, ch. 234, 19 Stat. 102
An act to amend the act entitled “An act to amend and supplement an act entitled “An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States” approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other purposes,” approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four
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Act of June 7, 1878, ch. 160, 20 Stat. 99
An act to repeal the bankrupt law
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