In re SAMUELS’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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1. “(3) powers which he might have exercised for his 'own benefit, but not those which he might have exercised for some other person, . . .. (5) property which prior to the filing of the petition he could by any means have transferred or which might have been levied upon and sold under judicial process against him: Provided, That when any bankrupt shalThave any insurance policy which has a cash surrender value payable to himself, his estate, or personal representatives, he may, within thirty days after the cash surrender .value has been ascertained and stated to the trustee- by the company issuing.the same, pay or secure 'to the trustee the sum so ascertained and stated, and continue to hold, own, and carry such policy free from the claims , of thevcredifors participating in the distribution of his estate under the bankruptcy proceedings, otherwise the policy, shall pass to the trustee as assets; . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cohen v. Samuels