Creditor
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 344 U.S. 293 - City of New York v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · 1953Most cited · 1,245 citing opinions
§ 77 Bankruptcy Act
Section 77(b) defines 'creditors' as 'all holders of claims of whatever character against the debtor or its property' and specifically defines 'liens' as 'claims.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Creditor”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Creditor” — 1,407 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1933–1953
- ORIGINAL
Congress must be deemed to have intended that in section 3a(1) 'creditors' should be given the meaning usually attributed to it when used in the common-law definition of fraudulent conveyances.