An order of the court declaring a person bankrupt and placing their affairs under the control of a receiver or trustee.
〔英格兰律〕破产令。比较RECEIVING ORDER
Compare with receiving order
Example sentencesExamples
Whatever the merit of the point, it is hardly an appropriate basis on which to issue a bankruptcy petition or a sufficient ground to support a bankruptcy order.
This is an involuntary effect of the law relating to bankruptcy which transfers the bankrupt's interest to his trustee in bankruptcy when a bankruptcy order is made.
On 7 August 2002, immediately prior to making the bankruptcy order, the judge made two further orders.
That was the debt on which the court made the bankruptcy order.
He presented his own petition for bankruptcy; and a bankruptcy order was made on that petition on 8 June 1994.