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An extract of the act pass'd II Georg. I. Intituled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors. With remarks thereon. Written by Mr. Asgill. To which is added, A Postscript concerning Taxes: With a Proposal thereon.
Great Britain.Date: M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]- Books
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Reasons humbly offered for An act for relief of insolvent debtors, and fugitives for debt.
Date: 1753?]- Books
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An Act for the reviving and continuing several Acts therein mentioned, for the preventing mischiefs which may happen by fire; for building and repairing county goals; for exempting apothecaries from serving parish and ward-offices, and serving upon juries; and relating t the returning of jurors.
Great Britain.Date: 1712]- Books
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An Act for the relief and encouragement of the captors of prizes, with respect to the bringing and landing prize goods in this kingdom.
Great Britain.Date: 1757]- Books
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Seven letters to the lords and commons of Great Britain, upon the impolicy, inhumanity, and injustice, of our present mode of arresting the bodies of debtors; Shewing the inconsistency of it, with Magna Carta and a free constitution: with observations on the draging of debtors to Sponging-Houses, and to prisons in the first instance, before the debt is proved, upon the bare affidavit of the vilest character: and likewise some remarks on the fatal effects of such proceedings, on the circumstances and morals of individuals. The whole illustrated by a variety of cases, taken from real life. By Josiah Dornford, Esq.
Dornford, Josiah, 1764-1797.Date: [1786]- Books
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Seven letters to the lords of the Privy Council, on the police: Pointing out the causes of the depravity of the lower orders of the people:-why such numbers are constantly put to death every sessions, and remedies for the same: with some observations on the impolicy and inhumanity of our present mode of arrests, and the keeping of debtors in prison:-the corrupt state of our gaols, and how much evil they are productive of. By Josiah Dornford, Esq.
Dornford, Josiah, 1764-1797.Date: M,D,CC,LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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An act for the relief of insolvent debtors; and for the relief of bankrupts, in certain cases.
Great Britain.Date: 1774- Books
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An account of the rise, progress, and present state, of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons imprisoned for Small Debts throughout England.
Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts.Date: 1792- Books
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Considerations on imprisonment for debt, fully proving, that the confining of the bodies of debtors is contrary to common law, magna charta, statute law, justice, humanity, and policy. And that the practice is more cruel and oppressive than is used in the most arbitrary kingdoms in Europe. With an account of the various applications to the king and judges by the prisoners of the King's Bench, for obtaining redress; and some remarkable cases of prisoners now confined there. By James Stephen.
Stephen, James, approximately 1733-1779.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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A sermon preached in the chapel belonging to the prison of Ludgate, on Sunday, August 29, 1725. On Occasion of the Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors. By Robert Drew, M.A.
Drew, Robert, 1688-1746.Date: M.DCC.XXV. [1725]- Books
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A sermon preached in the chapel belonging to the prison of Ludgate, on Sunday, August 29, 1725. On Occasion of the Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors. By Robert Drew, M.A.
Drew, Robert, 1688-1746.Date: M.DCC.XXV. [1725]- Books
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An account of the rise, progress, and present state, of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts, throughout England.
Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts.Date: 1789- Books
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An account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Society for the discharge and relief of persons imprisoned for small debts.
Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons imprisoned for small Debts.Date: 1783- Books
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Account of persons confined for debt, in the various prisons of England and Wales; together with their provisionary allowance during confinement: as reported to the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Small Debtors, in April, May, June, &c. 1800. By James Neild, Esq. Treasurer.
Neild, James, 1744-1814.Date: 1800- Books
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A treatise on civil imprisonment in England; with the history of its progress, and objections to its policy, as it respects the interests of creditors, and the punishment, or protection of debtors. Concluding with the Principles and General Lines of a Plan for Amending the Present Law; and an Appendix of Notes. By Thomas Macdonald, Esquire, of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law.
Macdonald, Thomas.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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An Act for the relief of insolvent debtors, by obliging their creditors to accept the utmost satisfaction they are capable to make, and restoring them to their liberty.
Great Britain.Date: 1712]- Books
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An Act for the relief of insolvent debtors.
Great Britain.Date: 1765- Books
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An Act for the relief of parishes, and other places, from such charges as may arise from bastard children born within the same.
Great Britain.Date: 1733]- Books
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An Act for the relief of insolvent debtors; and for the relief of bankrupts, in certain cases.
Great Britain.Date: 1778- Books
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An act for the repeal of all former acts concerning the longitude at sea, except so much thereof as relates to the appointment and authority of the commissioners thereby constituted, and also such clauses as relate to the constructing, printing, publishing, vending, and licensing, of nautical almanacks, and other useful tables; and for the more effectual encouragement and reward of such person and persons as shall discover a method for finding the same, or shall make useful discoveries in navigation; and for the better making experiments relating thereto.
Great Britain.Date: 1774- Books
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An Act for the relief of merchants importing prize-goods from America.
Great Britain.Date: 1712]- Books
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An Act for the relief of debtors, with respect to the imprisonment of their persons.
Great Britain.Date: 1729]- Books
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An Act for the relief of insolvent debtors.
Great Britain.Date: 1742 [i.e. 1743]]- Books
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An account of the rise, progress, and present state, of the Society for the discharge and relief of persons imprisoned for small debts throughout England.
Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons imprisoned for small Debts.Date: 1796- Books
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An account of the rise, progress, and present state, of the Society for the discharge and relief of persons imprisoned for small debts throughout England.
Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons imprisoned for small Debts.Date: 1799