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Bankruptcy Act of 1898

August 1937 amendment of the Bankruptcy Act of 1898


Act of Aug. 12, 1937, ch. 589, 50 Stat. 622

An Act To amend section 77B of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, as amended

Seventy-Fifth Congress, Session I · Approved August 12, 1937

This is an unofficial transcription, prepared by Robert J. Pfister for ease of reading and copying. The authoritative text is the United States Statutes at Large.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subdivision (c) of section 77B of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, as amended (U.S.C., 1934 ed., title 11, sec. 207(c)), is amended by inserting after clause (3) thereof the following:

“(3½) may, for cause shown, and in accordance with such rules as to notice and hearing as the Supreme Court may prescribe, authorize the debtor, or the trustee or trustees, if appointed, to lease or sell, upon such terms and conditions as may be approved by the judge, any property of the debtor, whether real or personal;”.

Approved, August 12, 1937.