Supreme Court of the United States June 7, 1912, 219 (Henderson v. Mayer)

Mr. Justice Lamar,

after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The provisions of the Bankruptcy Act, preventing an insolvent from giving or the creditor from securing preferences for preexisting debts, apply not only to mortgages and transfers voluntarily made by the debtor, but also to those preferences which aré obtained through legal pro

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ceedings, whether the