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18. C Of Culpable Insolvency.

— and easy to break through. To compleat the confusion, the distinction between an
Insolvent who can be a Bankrupt, and an Insolvent
who cannot , may be broken down with certainty: but
then it can only be done by artifice and prevarication; and
at a great expence. Any man by getting two or three
friends to join with him may make himself a Trader
for the purpose: perhaps at any rate; certainly under a
system of Laws which takes care to leave every thing undefined.

Expence of enforcing the Bankrupt Laws. As to expence, never did a Commission of Bankruptcy
cost so little as £1 80: the greatest part made up of
expences palpably unnecessary : taxes under the name of taxes;
taxes under the name of fees for taking steps that are
of no use. The poor are not worth the consideration of the never worth considering.
Law. I forget: they are so in a time of Jubilee; for about
two or three months at a time: once in about five or Six
Years.

The above is but a very imperfect and but too favourable
a Picture of the Absurdities of the English Law on the subject

Identifier: | JB/071/193/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	193	Info in main headings field	of culpable insolvency
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18 / f19 / f20
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23596
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