The law against bankrupts: or, A treatise wherein the statutes against bankrupts are explained by several cases, resolutions, judgments and decrees, both at common law and in Chancery. Together with the learning of declarations and pleading relating thereunto. To which are likewise added forms and directions for commissioners, and presisidents, fit for the perusal of lawyers, or merchants and tradesmen. By T.G. serjeant at law.
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The law against bankrupts: or, A treatise wherein the statutes against bankrupts are explained by several cases, resolutions, judgments and decrees, both at common law and in Chancery. Together with the learning of declarations and pleading relating thereunto. To which are likewise added forms and directions for commissioners, and presisidents, fit for the perusal of lawyers, or merchants and tradesmen. By T.G. serjeant at law.
Author
Goodinge, Thomas.
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London :: printed for S. Heyrick, C. Harper, J. Place, J. Harrison, S. Keeble, D. Brown, J. Cleave, W. Rogers, R. Sare, W. Reeman, T. Goodwin, M. Wotton, R. Vincent, A. Roper, and J. Brixey,
1695.
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Bankruptcy -- Early works to 1800.
Law -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"The law against bankrupts: or, A treatise wherein the statutes against bankrupts are explained by several cases, resolutions, judgments and decrees, both at common law and in Chancery. Together with the learning of declarations and pleading relating thereunto. To which are likewise added forms and directions for commissioners, and presisidents, fit for the perusal of lawyers, or merchants and tradesmen. By T.G. serjeant at law." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41432.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.
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Of the Examina∣tion of the
Bankrupt.
his Wife.
other Persons as Witnes∣ses, Concealers, &c.
And of their refusal to swear and discover the Truth, and the Consequence.
BY Stat. 1 Jac. c. 15 If upon five several Proclamations the Bankrupt appear not, the Commissioners may award a Warrant to apprehend his Body, and to bring him before the said Commissioners wheresoever he may be found, to be ex∣amined by the Commissioners, prout prius more at large.
And that it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, or the greater part of them, to examin the said Offender or Offenders upon such Interrogatories touching the Lands,Tenements, Goods, Chattels, Debts, Bills,
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Bonds, Books of Accounts, and such other things as may tend to disclose his, her or their Estate, or the secret Grants, Convey∣ances, Eloyning of his or their Lands, Tene∣ments, Goods, Mony and Debts, as they shall think meet: And if the Bankrupt shall re∣fuse to be examined, or to answer fully to every Interrogatory, that then he shall be committed to Prison, prout supra.
By Stat. 21 Jac. c. 19. The Commissi∣oners have Power to examine the Bank∣rupts Wife upon Oath; and if she come not, or refuse to be sworn, then to in∣cur the like penalty with others, prout supra more at large.