Arrest on Mesne Process in Civil Actions, so that no prisoners could be committed to the Fleet from the Courts of Chancery, Exchequer, and Common Pleas, and the Debtors and Bankrupts might as well be in the Queen's Bench.
Say not, your loss in triumph leads Religion’s feeble strife; Joys future amply reimburse Joys bankrupts of this life.
No bankrupts are rich; Some merchants are not bankrupts.
The first law against bankrupts ever passed in England, was against the banking company composed of these Jews, and confined exclusively to them.
The contempt of government among one class of men, the silent murmurs of poverty in the peaceful cottage, and numerous bankrupts in every quarter, are irresistible evidence to a thinking mind, that something is wrong.
Such leaders, bankrupts on the exchange or in character, controlled everything.
It is true we are bankrupts in commerce and riches, But think how we find our Allies in new breeches!
Having become bankrupts in health, there is necessarily a failure of the menstrual function, and then follows a panic.
In England only one-tenth of the number of bankrupts are considered innocent.
Of course we hear of bankrupts who come forth again with renewed glories, and who shine all the brighter in consequence of their temporary obscurity.
The United States statute further provides that certain persons may be declared bankrupts at the instance of their creditors.
By a United States' statute, certain persons may become bankrupts and thereby be discharged from their obligations.
Since we see frequently now that bankrupts desire statutes, and procure them to be taken out against themselves.
It also places the law relating to the disqualifications attaching to such bankrupts on a similar footing to that of the English act.
In the case of a bankrupt firm the joint creditors are not entitled to receive a dividend out of the separate property of the bankrupts until all the separate creditors are paid in full.
Bankrupts are liable to criminal proceedings involving punishments more or less heavy for offences against the law, e.
Enlightened by experience, they have lately tried to render void such fraudulent agreements; and as the bankrupts have reason to complain of the extortion, the judges had some hope of reforming to that extent the system of bankruptcy.
The severity of the law was certainly intended against fraudulent bankrupts only; and the statute of bankruptcy is, doubtless, favourable to insolvents, as it discharges from all former debts those who obtained their certificates.
And ask all bankrupts if they did not fail from that cause.
Your child, I fear, is the daughter of bankrupts and doubtless inherits their qualities.
Americans, especially, overcheck their deposits of vitality, and as bankrupts they struggle to transact daily duties.
They either become less active and industrious, or more parsimonious and miserly; and not a few become prodigals or bankrupts at once.
Some bankruptshave paid their debts, like honest men, with them.
Many of them were political bankrupts as well as pecuniary bankrupts--men who had not had a dollar; and some of them were men who not only never paid a debt, but never recognized an obligation.
Many of the bankrupts were composed of business men who, while sharp themselves, were outgeneraled by abler sharpers.
The former distinction between insolvents andbankrupts is now abolished.
The ride that bankrupts the English language," indeed, thought I.
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