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Debt, Imprisonment for - Great Britain - Early works to 1800

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To the honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses of Great-Britain in Parliament assembled. Some considerations humbly offered, relating to the relief of such unhappy gentlemen, who cou'd not receive any benefit from the last insolvent Act.
Date: 1726]
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A letter to a nobleman, concerning the bill to prevent frivolous and vexatious arrests; with the substance of the said bill, and notes thereupon. As also, reasons published for and against the bill, and the argument of a learned council in the House of Commons against the same; and a reply thereto. With observations, and proposals for rendring the bill more effectual; by extending thro' the kingdom the custom of foreign attachments, and Courts of Conscience, for more easy recovery of small debts; and by restraining the ill practices of inferior courts, and also of undersheriffs and their officers in arrests and executions.
W. B.Date: 1726
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A scene of corruption discover'd; with some particulars of a melancholy place in a letter to the Right Honourable Philip Lord Hardwick, ... By a gentleman in distress.
Philander.Date: [1737]
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The case of poor insolvent prisoners for debt, in the several goals [sic] of this kingdom.
Date: 1716?]
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Imprisonment for debt unconstitutional and oppressive, proved from the Fundamental Principles of the British Constitution, and the Rights of Nature. By Edward Farley, Esq.
Farley, Edward, Esq.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]