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.

Interrogatories.

AS to Interrogatories, they are to be framed according to the matters to be examined to; tho' some will have ready all the general Interrogatories that will fit the Examinations throughout all the Statutes. Some Commissioners a∣gain will not examine by Iterrogatories at all, for fear of some leading Questi∣ons may make Witnesses frame Evasions. But I cannot commend this way, it be∣ing a sort of careless behaviour, and too slight for such a weighty matter as this, considering the Penalties attending the Offenders against the Statutes. Besides, at a Trial, Depositions may be made use of as Evidence (especially against the party himself, or in case of the Death of Witnesses) and to read a Deposition without referring to Interrogatories, is to judge upon an Answer without know∣ing the state of the Question. I had thought to have inserted here the Forms of some Comprehensive Interrogatories, but there is such variety of Examination in the executing this Commission, that I shall leave that to the Ingenuity of the Commissioners, who may easily form Interrogatories, as the nature of the Case, and the Matter before them shall direct.