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.

Famous quotes containing the words bankruptcy and/or act:

    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)

    Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)