Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judge may be dishonest. He may be leagued with his appointees to abstract and share a larger percentage of the assets than the law allows, thus cheating legitimate creditors. Politics largely controls Federal judicial appointments in the lowest courts and old political debts can be quietly discharged by appointment of a small group of the judge's friends as receivers. A judge's old law partner may likewise be overfavored with such assignments from the court. A good Federal judge scatters his receiverships; a bad one uses them for political or personal profit...
...Court Auctioneer is likewise in a position where graft can be a sore temptation. By forced sale he turns possessions into cash. He may conspire with a few choice buyers to undersell assets to them at a bountiful profit which they graciously and secretly split with him. He may rig his auction books to show low sale prices, pocketing money that should go to creditors...
They appealed to His Excellency, Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, apostolic delegate at Washington, and then to the Holy See, where their suit was denied. Then they went to a secular Rhode Island court and then to the State Supreme Court...
...civil law respects canon law as it applies to the internal affairs of a church.* Therefore since the Catholic court had ruled against Attorney Daignault and friends, the Rhode Island courts did likewise. Attorney Daignault lost his case. Worse, he had been responsible for the appearance in a secular court of a Catholic Bishop as defendant...
...Sunbury Court, Sunbury-on-Thames, England, last week, gathered the High Council of the Salvation Army. Their faces were dolorous for they were going to depose General Booth. They had done it once before and it had done no good (TIME, Jan. 21). This time they meant to mean business...