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" By this 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... "
The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ... - Page 32
1788
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The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: On Conciliation with America ...

Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 602 pages
...presumption, in innumerable cases, directly against truth. Therefore the debtor is ordered, on a supposition of ability and fraud, to be coerced his liberty until he makes payment. By this means, in all cases of civil insolvency, without a pardon from his creditor, he is to be imprisoned for life ; and...
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