...successors, if he shall have one or more, upon his or their appointment and qualification, shall in turn be vested, by operation of law, with the title of...bankrupt as of the date he was adjudged a bankrupt." (i Fed. Stat. Annotated, sec. 70, p. 697.) We are of the opinion, therefore, the question of title...

...intended the necessary effect of his act " (4). III. The clause in section 70, providing that the trustee shall be vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt " as of the date when he was adjudged a bankrupt," does not affect the question. The purpose of that clause was to protect...

...successors, if he shall have one or more, upon his or their appointment and qualification, shall in turn be vested by operation of law with the title of the...bankrupt, as of the date he was adjudged a bankrupt." Under these sections as uniformly construed, the title of the trustee relates back to the time of the...

...it is clear that under section 70a of the Bankruptcy Law (Сотр. St. § 9654) the trustee would be vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt as of the date he was adjudicated, because the cash surrender value and the loan value of the ten insurance policies under...

...of 1898 [Сотр. St § 9654], the trastee of the estate, on his appointment and qualification, is vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt as of the date he was adjudicated a bankrupt; but there are many provisions of the law which show its purpose to hold the...

...respondent, under the rules above quoted. The Hankruptcy Act (Section 70n) declares that a trustee "shall « • • be vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt" as of the date of adjudication, to nil (1) property which prior to the filing of the petition he (the bankrupt) could...

...his right to proceed against Lutz under section 70, Bankr. Law 1898. providing that he "shall in turn be vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt, as of the <lute he was adjudged a bankrupt, except in so far as it is to property which is exempt, to all," etc.,...

...act (Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, 30 Stat. 565,'5i)C. [US Сотр. St. 1901, p. 3451]) the trustee is vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt as of the date when he was adjudged a bankrupt to all "(5) property which, prior to the filing of the petition, he...

...and in possession of the life estate. Section 70 of the Bankrupt Act vests the Trustee in bankruptcy, by operation of law, with the title of the bankrupt, as of the date of adjudication, of all property which, prior to the filing of the petition, the bankrupt could by...

...9654), declaring that the trustee of the estate of a bankrupt. upon his appointment and qualification shall be vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt to all documents relating to his property interests and patents, powers which he might have exercised...