Item Detail
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30164
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English
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Suffering Shipwreck and Bankruptcy in 1842 and Beyond
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Sustaining the Law : Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters
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Provo, UT
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BYU Studies
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309-328
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Although Joseph Smith was no stranger to accusations of fraud, one of the most serious began in the summer of 1842. Struggling to keep his head above financial water, he petitioned for bankruptcy under the new federal Bankruptcy Act, passed the year before. [From the text]
This article was originally published as Dallin H. Oaks and Joseph I. Bentley, "Joseph Smith and the Legal Process: In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo," BYU Law Review 2, no. 3 (1976): 735-82.