 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...restore to any their creditors their debts and duties, * but at their own wills and pleasures consume the substance obtained " by credit of other men, for...pleasure and delicate living, " against all reason, equity, and good conscience." The bankrupt being deemed an offender, and being completely divested... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 576 pages
...restore to any of their creditors their duties, but at their own wills and pleasures consume debts,and the substance obtained by credit of other men for...pleasure and delicate living, against all reason, equity and good conscience." It is the common evil now, only with this difference—that " men craftily... | |
 | Nathaniel Appleton Haven - American literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...or restore to any their creditors, their dues, but at their own will and pleasure consume debts and the substance obtained by credit of other men, for...pleasure and delicate living, against all reason, equity, and good conscience ; it is enacted," Sec. By this statute, a court of commissioners was erected,... | |
 | Nathaniel Appleton Haven - American literature - 1827 - 406 pages
...or restore to any their creditors, their dues, but at their own will and pleasure consume debts and the substance obtained by credit of other men, for...pleasure and delicate living, against all reason, equity, and good conscience ; it is enacted," fee. By this statute, a court of commissioners was erected,... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1829 - 866 pages
...to pav or restore to any their debts and 'duties; but, at their own wills and pleasures, consume ' the substance obtained by credit of other men, for their own pleasure and delicate living." He cited rom the statute itself, and not erroneously, from digests ir memory, as others have d'jne... | |
 | Jeremiah O'Callaghan - Economics - 1834 - 396 pages
...restore to any of their creditors their debts and duties ; but, at their own wills and pleasures, consume the substance obtained by credit of other men, for...pleasure and delicate living, against all reason, equity, and good conscience.' And the 21 James 1, Chap. 19, begins by declaring ' that tha aforesaid... | |
 | Great Britain - Law - 1836 - 554 pages
...to pay or restore to any their creditors their duties, but at their own wills and pleasure* consomé the substance obtained by credit of other men for...pleasure and delicate living, against all reason, equity and good conscience." It is observable that this Act is not confined, like the more recent Statutes... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 546 pages
...restore to any their creditors their debts and duties, but at their own wills and pleasures consume the substance obtained by credit of other men, for...pleasure and delicate living, against all reason, equity, and good conscience, — " and goes on to provide for a summary seizure of their property for... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 558 pages
...restore to any their creditors their debts and duties, but at their own wills and pleasures consume the substance obtained by credit of other men, for...pleasure and delicate living, against all reason, equity, and good conscience, — " and goes on to provide for a summary seizure of their property for... | |
 | Edward Clements - Bankruptcy - 1850 - 462 pages
...their duties, but at their own wills and pleasures consume debts, and the substance obtained by the credit of other men, for their own pleasure and delicate living, against all reason, equity, and good conscience: Be it therefore enacted," &c. By this statute the description of a Bankrupt... | |
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Where divers and sundry persons craftily obtaining into their hands great substance of other men's goods, do suddenly flee to parts unknown, or keep their houses, not minding to pay or restore to any of their creditors, their debts and duties, but at... 
