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§67f liens

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Definitions from Case Law

From 229 U.S. 511 - Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Hall · 1913Most cited · 223 citing opinions

Bankruptcy Act

Barring exceptional cases, which are specially provided for, the policy of the act is to fix a four months' period in which a creditor cannot obtain an advantage over other creditors nor a lien against the debtor's property. 'All liens obtained by legal proceedings' within that period are declared to be null and void.

How often courts cite the case defining “§67f liens”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “§67f liens” — 223 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.