Bankruptcy Act

Bankruptcy Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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    You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.
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