The restriction of bankruptcy legislation to persons engaged in commerce created a need for liquidation proceedings applicable to other debtors.
But the bankruptcy code does not define stockbrokers by registration, instead referring to stockbrokers as persons "engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities".
In dealing with persons engaged in normal affairs, the comic dramatists tended to depict the individual in terms of some single but overriding personal trait or habit.
Traditionally, in most countries, a distinction is also made between the home civil service and those persons engaged abroad on diplomatic duties.
The federal antitrust laws do not create a federal law of unfair competition or "purport to afford remedies for all torts committed by or against persons engaged in interstate commerce".
The July 1 , 1865 Treasury Department order appointing Mr. Wood told him that his primary responsibility was "detecting and bringing to trial and punishment, persons engaged in counterfeiting treasury notes, bonds and other securities of the United States".
The policy, detailed in the Justice Department's manual for United States attorneys on how to carry out their duties, advises that unless minors are victims, prosecutions "should generally be limited to persons engaged in commercial prostitution activities".
According to Peter Djinis, a director at the Treasury Department's financial crimes enforcement network, "This new industry has done very little to make its activities inhospitable to persons engaged or interested in committing financial fraud".
To ensure... a fair standard of living for the agricultural population, particularly by the increasing of the individual earnings of persons engaged in agriculture; to stabilize markets; to guarantee regular supplies; and to ensure reasonable prices in supplies to consumers.
The first detachment arrived at 7 a.m., and by 3 p.m., Mayor Schmitz had officially authorized the troops "to kill any and all persons engaged in looting or in the commission of any other crime".
Although for census purposes Egyptian towns are considered to be urban centres, some of them are actually overgrown villages, containing large numbers of fellahin and persons engaged in work relating to agriculture and rural enterprises.
