Key legal question
Whether costs of convening and holding the bondholders' meeting count as liquidation costs or only party costs.
Extracted holding
The expenses were not liquidation costs; they were party costs of a specific creditor class and had to be treated like ordinary claims in the liquidation.
Extracted reasoning
Liquidation costs under Art. 38 are only expenses arising after liquidation is recognized and incurred in the interest of all creditors for administration and distribution of the estate. Costs incurred before liquidation to obtain it, even if mandated by law and incurred against a creditor's will, benefit only a special creditor group. The bondholders' meeting was not a first creditors' meeting and its outcome did not change the legal nature of the costs.