Excerpt from Debtor and Creditor, Including Bankruptcy: Containing the Text of the Federal Bankruptcy Law, With Questions, Problems and Forms In this volume, an attempt has been made to gather the chief law relating to creditors and debtors in relation to the rights of each which spring out of the contract or the general law. The different sorts and forms of indebtedness, the important subject of liens, the payment, settlement and compromise of the debt, the manner of collecting a debt through the means of legal machinery and, finally, the law of bank ruptcy under the National Bankruptcy Act, are all considered. The volume ought to be helpful to busi ness men in a very practical way. The author is not familiar with any other volume which attempts either in a small or large way to bring together the law relating to debtor and creditor in its various aspects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.