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Powers - Excluding Creditors Of The Donee Of A General Power By Express Provisions By The Donor, S. W. Boyce, Jr.
Powers - Excluding Creditors Of The Donee Of A General Power By Express Provisions By The Donor, S. W. Boyce, Jr.
Michigan Law Review
There is very little authority upon this subject; lawyers seemingly assume that the picture is complicated enough without venturing into new fields. In only two jurisdictions are there actual reported cases where the donor has tried by specific provisions to restrain creditors of the donee.
Corporations - Rights Of Action By The Representative Of Corporate Creditors - Effect Of Corporate Assent, Edward W. Adams
Corporations - Rights Of Action By The Representative Of Corporate Creditors - Effect Of Corporate Assent, Edward W. Adams
Michigan Law Review
By various acts the directors and officers of a corporation--its agents for the conduct of corporate business--may wrong the corporation or make possible a wrong to the corporation or to the body of corporate stockholders. When the corporation becomes involved in insolvency proceedings, in order to make available to creditors as many assets as possible, the receiver or trustee in bankruptcy determines whether some cause of action will lie to recover damages or property, or whether he may successfully defend to preserve assets. If the corporation itself could have been successful in the litigation, the solution would be easy because …