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Excerpt from A Compilation of the Insolvent Laws of Maryland: Together With the Decisions of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, and of the Supreme Court of the United States, on the Subject of Insolvency; With a Copious Index
There are two capital faults in Our law, with relation to civil debts - one is, that every man is presumed solvent, a pre sumption in innumerable cases, directly against truth. There fore, the debtor is ordered, ou a supposition of ability and fraud, to be coerced his liberty, until he makes payment. By th1s means, in all cases Of civil insolvency, without a pardon from his creditor, he is to be imprisoned for life: and thus a miserable mistaken invention of artificial science, Operates to change a civil into a criminal judgment, and to scourge misfortune or ia discretion with a punishment which the law does not inflict on the greatest crimes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
