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Supreme Court· 11/24/1924

White v. Stump

Citations

  • 266 U.S. 310
  • 45 S. Ct. 103
  • 69 L. Ed. 301
  • 1924 U.S. LEXIS 2671

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the right of the debtor to claim property as exempt is generally determined on the facts as they exist on the date of the filing of the petition
  • stating that the Bankruptcy Act \makes the state laws existing when the petition is filed the measure of the [debtor's] right to exemptions\
  • acknowledging that a debtor may claim only those exemptions available at the time of the bankruptcy petition filing
  • explaining that the “state laws existing when the [bankruptcy] petition is filed [are] the measure of the right to exemptions”
  • explaining that “the point of time which is to separate the old situation from the new in the bankrupt’s affairs is the date when the petition is filed”
  • describing the time of fil- ing as a “line of cleavage”

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Judges: Van Devanter

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