District Court, S.D. New York November 15, 1869 (In re Davis)

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

The 39th section of the bankruptcy act specifies, as an act of bankruptcy, that the debtor “has been arrested and held in custody under or by virtue of mesne process or execution, issued out of any court of any state, district or territory within which such debtor resides or has prop erty, founded upon a demand m its nature provable against a bankrupt’s estate under