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1 INSOLVENCY. of Insolvent—Acts if Plan is inexpedient
1 The punishment must necessarily be disproportionate
2. It is forgiving other men's debts before they
have had any trial of the expedient of the expedient which
the general policy of the Law has deemed proper to put into
their hands for setting paid.
3. It occasions all those knavish schemes for
whitewashing as the vulgar cant phrase is, that affects
of which are so much complained of.
Whatever is be assumed for the period + + proportionate to the quantum of the several debts
during which it is proper
that the operation efficacy of that expedient should be put cautioned
in trial, this period among an infinity of others
during which imprisonment will by virtue of these acts have been
is but one.
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It seems one of those bald expedients , more analogous
to the hasty Jurisprudence of an infant Republic,
than an enlighten'd and experienced nation: where the
policy is such, whereby the evil is palliated, under the certainty of its speedy
reappearance, & judgment is given against the
priority of the Law itself by the manner in which it is dispensed wit.
If it be not fit the Tarif must should not be professedly perpetual, still whenever
the expedient is - recoured to, the Tariff should be adopted.
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