insolvent debtor

Any new insolvent debtor's bill was rejected one after another.

On discharge he was still not free of his debt, but the Act greatly improved the insolvent debtors' lot.

This, in turn, enabled them to purchase properties or take over them from insolvent debtors.

Its most notorious feature allowed a creditor to sell an insolvent debtor and his family into slavery.

II c. 22 for the relief of insolvent debtors, although set-off was recognized in equity.

As a budding state legislator in 1835, Lincoln introduced a bill to provide relief for insolvent debtors.

It arises in debtor/creditor relations, particularly with reference to insolvent debtors.

The long reform process began with the Insolvent Debtors (England) Act 1813.

In 1846 he obtained the post of commissioner of the insolvent debtors' court of London.

In 1861 the Insolvent Debtors Court had been abolished, he said, but imprisonment for debt continued.

Cabot appears to have gotten into financial trouble in the late 1480s and had left Venice as an insolvent debtor by 5 November 1488.

Woodward explains just how Corrigan discreetly instructed bank executives to keep lending to momentarily insolvent debtors.

The law, which Benjamin Haydon regarded as an enemy, remained hostile to insolvent debtors throughout this time.

In 1841 Fleming was appointed commissioner of insolvent debtors, Hobart, Tasmania.

A number of leading colonial figures lost their fortunes with many taking advantage of the Insolvent Debtors Act 1841.

Insolvent debtors of minor grade, together with the promiscuous lame ducks of morality found in the Navy a convenient and secure refuge.

During the Renaissance, the punishment of insolvent debtors included being chained to a post on this spot and then paddled repeatedly on the naked buttocks.

Most insolvency law allows mutual debts to be set-off, allowing certain creditors (those who also owe money to the insolvent debtor) a pre-preferential position.

Subsequently he was appointed a commissioner of the court for the relief of insolvent debtors, and on 1 August 1853 promoted to be the chief commissioner.

With his new skills and contacts, Wild was released in 1712 under an Act of Parliament passed earlier that year for the relief of insolvent debtors.

"Insolvent Debtors' Act, 1842", English Historical Documents, Routledge.

The condemned felon has as good a yard for air and exercise in Newgate, as the insolvent debtor in the Marshalsea Prison.

In the debate on Lord Redesdale's insolvent debtors bill in 1820, he said he would like to see the debtor the creditor's prisoner once more, not the court's.

The Act created a new Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors that remained in existence until 1861, under the jurisdiction of a newly appointed Commissioner.

The Republicans did not mention that one of their party's most prominent members was a self-declared "insolvent debtor" who would surely have filed for bankruptcy had the current laws been available to him.