| Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...by law direct, provided the right of bringing suit be limited to the citizens of this State. XVIII. That the person of a debtor, where there is not strong presumption of fraud, shall not be continued "i prison, axie.r delivering up his estate for the benefit of of his creditor or creditors, in such... | |
| Illinois - Constitutional law - 1818 - 32 pages
...exterminate, mankind. Sect. 15. No person shall be imprisoned for debt, unless upon refusal to deliver up his estate for the benefit of his creditors, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law, or in cases where there is Strong presumption of fraud. Sect 16. No ex fast facto law, nor... | |
| Charles Britten Johnson - Pennsylvania - 1819 - 190 pages
...it. SECT. XV. That no commission of oyer and terminer or gaol delivery shall be issued. SECT. XVI. That the person of a debtor, where there is not strong...his creditors, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. SECT. XVII. That no ex post facto law, nor any law impairing contracts, shall be made. SECT.... | |
| Ohio - Session laws - 1821 - 636 pages
...and unjust: the true design of all punishments being to reform, not to exterminate, mankind. Sec. 15. The person of a debtor, where there is not strong...after delivering up his estate for the benefit of his creditor or creditors, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. Sec. 16. No ex post facto law,... | |
| Rhode Island - Session laws - 1822 - 592 pages
...the land. SEC. 7. The person of a debtor, when there is not strong presumption 01 fraud, ought not to be continued in prison, after delivering up his estate...his creditors, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. SEC. 8. Retrospective laws punishing offences committed before the existence of such laws,... | |
| Vermont - Land grants - 1823 - 570 pages
...dignity of the State. [24] And all fmes shall be proportionate to the offences. [26.] SECTION XXX. The person of a debtor, where there is not strong presumption of fraud, shall not bo continued in prison after delivering up and and assipnini: over, bona Jidc, all his estate, real... | |
| Francis Smith Eastman - Vermont - 1828 - 124 pages
...the peace and dignity of the state, -and all fines shall be proportioned to the offences. AKT. 33. The person of a debtor, where there is not strong...shall not be continued in prison, after delivering up and assigning over bonajide, all his estate, real and personal, in possession, reversion, or remainder,... | |
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