Bankruptcy in an industrial society : a history of the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio / M. Susan Murnane.
2015
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Title
Bankruptcy in an industrial society : a history of the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio / M. Susan Murnane.
Published
Akron, Ohio : University of Akron Press, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Call Number
KF8755.O36 M87 2015
ISBN
9781937378813 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1937378810 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781629220154 (epdf)
1629220159 (epdf)
9781629220161 (epub)
1629220167 (epub)
1937378810 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781629220154 (epdf)
1629220159 (epdf)
9781629220161 (epub)
1629220167 (epub)
Description
xiv, 436 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)855046785
Summary
"Not a history of bankruptcy law, Murnane's work is a social and institutional history of the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio. The work explains the development of the court and the story of the people who worked there and of those who sought refuge in the bankruptcy court, within the context of northern Ohio's changing economy. The story of this particular bankruptcy court also illustrates the historical evolution of bankruptcy as an American institution." -- Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-418) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
vii
List of Figures
ix
Preface
xi
1.
Introduction
1
Bankruptcy and Industrialization
3
Institutional Change in the Bankruptcy Court
12
Bankruptcy as Ideology
20
2.
Insolvency and Bankruptcy in Nineteenth-Century Ohio
23
Speculation, Insolvency, and the Settlement of Early Ohio
24
The Bankruptcy Act of 1800
27
Insolvency in Early Ohio
30
The Bankruptcy Act of 1841
34
The Bankruptcy Act of 1867
43
Economic and Social Transformation: Prelude to Modern Bankruptcy
53
3.
Implementing the Bankruptcy Act of 1898
61
The Referees
64
The Rules
82
The Bankrupts
86
4.
The First Movement to Reform the Bankruptcy Act
106
The Referees
108
"Nothing is so helpless as an insolvent estate"
121
The Hastings Bill
133
The Chandler Act
143
The Referees' Salary Act
149
5.
Bankruptcy under the Bankruptcy Act: 1947 to 1978
156
The Referees: 1947 to 1965
159
The Debtors: Chapter XIII Wage-Earner Plans
173
The Bar: Bankruptcy Practitioners and Bankruptcy Practice in Cleveland
178
The Referees: 1965 to 1978
190
6.
The Second Movement to Reform the Bankruptcy Act
201
Economic Decline in Northern Ohio
203
The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978
215
The Transition to the Bankruptcy Code in the Northern District of Ohio
228
United States Trustees
241
7.
Case Studies under Chapter 11
247
Mansfield Tire and Rubber Company
250
White Motor Company
252
Terex
266
Revco
273
Edgell Communications
284
LTV: Liquidate, Terminate, Vacate
288
8.
The Political Economy of Bankruptcy
304
Consumer Bankruptcy in the Northern District of Ohio
306
The Politics of Consumer Bankruptcy Reform
312
Bankruptcy Judges
318
The Bankruptcy Court
330
Epilogue
337
Appendix
355
Commissioners in Bankruptcy
355
Registers in Bankruptcy
357
Referees in Bankruptcy
359
Referees in Bankruptcy and Bankruptcy Judges
364
Notes
367
Selected Bibliography
403
Index
419