The law for and against bankrupts: containing all the statutes, cases at large, arguments, resolutions, Judgments and Decrees, under the Head of Bankruptcy, down to the present time. Wherein is particularly shewn, What Persons may be Bankrupts within the Meaning of the Statutes; how they are to conform themselves thereto; the Power of the Commissioners and Assignees, as to their Estates; the Rights of the Creditors, and Privileges of the Bankrupt. Together with precedents or Forms of the Proceedings, on taking out and executing Commissions, also of Declarations, and Pleadings, in English, relating to this Subject, never before Printed. The Whole adapted to the Use of all Counsellors, Attornies, Merchants and Tradesmen. By a late commissioner of bankrupts.

Date:

1743