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INSOLVENCY Arrest tolled Salv. Credit
... Barrow
I will mention an indirect experiment that has
been made which may reduce to tend in a considerable
degree to reduce our apprehension of this ill
consequence.
The immeasurable abuses which had resulted from
the power exercised of seizing men's persons
upon a naked claim of debt to ever so small an amount in the first
instance, drew at length from the Legislature
that salutary Law by which this power was
restricted to fewer claims to the amount in the
higher Courts of £10, & upwards in the inferior, if 4 s,
& The demand <add>even then</add> in these cases to be verified authenticated by an Oath.
As this Oath, like other Oaths can be taken only
before certain persons authorised to receive them
sitting in whose residence the nature of their function combined to a certain place viz: that part of the Kingdom
called England,
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INSOLVENCY. Attachment executable on Sunday
A consequence of the word, arguing from words instead
of things, is to be seen here Another caprice intervenes here , the consequences of &c that for a Debt, where for a Debt from the
accident of it's being curtailed by aword of Arbitrators instead
of Verdict, of a Jury a man is liable to be taken in subjected to arrest
custody on a Sunday It is in the being aware, & taking advantage of these anomalities [such as these] + + v.1st Atkyns that consists that practitionary dexterity, which wheresoever it can find a field to exercise itself, indicates a corrupted in Jurisprudence. : of a consequence of which neither party
was is< probably aware, when they submitt to that the proceeding
which induces it: which produces a calamity with therefore induces grief <add>misery within shape</add>
which had never existed in that shape of Terror
in which alone it can be useful.
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