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Bankruptcy Act of 1898

June 1942 amendment of the Bankruptcy Act of 1898


Act of June 22, 1942, ch. 434, 56 Stat. 377

An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto

Seventy-Seventh Congress, Session II · Approved June 22, 1942

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 section 84 of chapter IX 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., 1940 edition, title XI, section 404), is amended to read as follows:

“Sec. 84. Jurisdiction conferred on any court by section 81 shall not be exercised by such court after June 30, 1946, except in respect of any proceeding initiated by filing a petition under section 83 (a) on or prior to June 30, 1946.”

Approved, June 22, 1942.