PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 575-JUNE 22, 1938 "To record." "(25) 'To record' shall include to register or to file for record or registration; "Referee." "(26) 'Referee' shall mean the referee who has jurisdiction of the case or to whom the case has been referred or anyone acting in his stead; "Relatives." "(27) 'Relatives' shall mean persons related by affinity or consan- guinity within the third degree as determined by the common law and shall include the spouse; "Sed ceditor. (28) 'Secured creditor' shall include a creditor who has security for his debt upon the property of the bankrupt of a nature to be assignable under this Act or who owns such a debt for which some endorser, surety, or other person secondarily liable for the bankrupt has such security upon the bankrupt's assets; "states.h" "(29) 'States' shall include the Territories and possessions to which this Act is or may hereafter be applicable, Alaska, and the District of Columbia; "Transfer." "(30) 'Transfer' shall include the sale and every other and differ- ent mode, direct or indirect, of disposing of or of parting with property or with an interest therein or with the possession thereof or of fixing a lien upon property or upon an interest therein, abso- lutely or conditionally, voluntarily or involuntarily, by or without judicial proceedings, as a conveyance, sale, assignment, payment, pledge, mortgage, lien, encumbrance, gift, security, or otherwise; aTrustee", "receiv- "(31) 'Trustee' shall include all of the trustees and 'receiver' shall er'" include all of the receivers of an estate; "wage earner." "(32) 'Wage earner' shall mean an individual who works for wages, salary, or hire, at a rate of compensation not exceeding $1,500 per year; Gender. "(33) Words importing the masculine gender may be applied to and include all persons; Plural number. "(34) Words importing the plural number may be applied to and mean only a single person or thing; and singular number. "(35) Words importing the singular number may be applied to and mean several persons or things. Chapter II-Cou of Bankruptcy. Creation of coun of bankruptcy ai their jurisdiction. Powers. Adjudication bankrupts. Allowance, etc., Appointment of r ceivers or marshals. rts "CHAPTER II-COURTS OF BANKRUPTCY rt "SEC. 2 . CREATION OF Courrs OF BANKRUPTCY AND TuEIM JURIS- DICTION. -a. The courts of the United States hereinbefore defined as courts of bankruptcy are hereby created courts of bankruptcy and are hereby invested, within their respective territorial limits as now established or as they may be hereafter changed, with such jurisdic- tion at law and in equity as will enable them to exercise original jurisdiction in proceedings under this Act, in vacation, in chambers, and during their respective terms, as they are now or may be here- after held, to- of "(1) Adjudge persons bankrupt who have had their principal place of business, resided or had their domicile within their respec- tive territorial jurisdictions for the preceding six months, or for a longer portion of the preceding six months than in any other juris- diction, or who do not have their principal place of business, reside, or have their domicile within the United States, but have property within their jurisdictions, or who have been adjudged bankrupts by courts of competent jurisdiction without the United States, and have property within their jurisdictions; of "(2) Allow claims, disallow claims, reconsider allowed or dis- allowed claims, and allow or disallow them against bankrupt estates; "(3) Appoint, upon the application of parties in interest, receivers or the marshals to take charge of the property of bankrupts and to 842 [52 STAT.
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