 There are two capital faults in our law with relation to civil debts. One is, that every man is presumed solvent. A presumption, in innumerable cases, directly against truth. Therefore the debtor is ordered, on a supposition of ability and fraud, to be...  The Pamphleteer - Page 536edited by - 1815Full view - About this book
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Forensic orations - 1880 - 552 pages
...say as far as it went; for its fault was its being; in the remedial part, miseiably defective. There are two capital faults in our law with relation to...cases, directly against truth. Therefore the debtor is oidered, on a supposition of ability and fraud, to be coerced his liberty until he makes payment. By... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...prevented that measure from becoming law. Lord Beauchamp's bill was a law of justice and policy. "There are two capital faults in our law with relation to civil debts," he said : " one is, that every man is presumed solvent — a presumption, in innumerable cases, directly... | |
 | Cornelis Johan Adriaan Bichon van IJsselmonde - Debt, Imprisonment for - 1885 - 540 pages
...zijn kiezers gehouden. Zie The Works of Edmund Burke, London 1855, II, bladz. 139 — 142: „There are two capital faults in our law with relation to...debts. One is, „that every man is presumed solvent. A presumtion, in innumerable cases, „directly against truth. Therefore the debtor is ordered, on a... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1892 - 598 pages
...say as far as it went, for its fault was its being, in the remedial part, miserably defective. There are two capital faults in our law with relation to...cases of civil insolvency, without a pardon from his crfdlcor, he is to be imprisoned for life : — and thus a miserable mistaken invention of artificial... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 410 pages
...far as it went, for its fault was its being, in the remedial part, miserably 10 defective. 1 There are two capital faults in our law with relation to...against truth. Therefore the debtor is ordered, on a 15 supposition of ability and fraud, to be coerced his liberty until he makes payment. By this means,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 608 pages
...say, as far as it went ; for its fault was its being in the remedial part miserably defective. There are two capital faults in our law with relation to...against truth. Therefore the debtor is ordered, on a snpposition of ability and fraud, to be coerced his liberty until he makes payment. By this means,... | |
 | Daniel O'Quinn - Drama - 2005 - 444 pages
...the danger of a penal system that does not distinguish civil infractions from criminal acts: "There are two capital faults in our law with relation to...debts. One is, that every man is presumed solvent . . . and thus a miserable mistaken invention of artificial science, operates to change a civil into... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 602 pages
...say, as far as it went ; for its fault was its being in the remedial part miserably defective. There are two capital faults in our law with relation to...liberty until he makes payment. By this means, in all eases of civil insolvency, without a pardon from his creditor, he is to be imprisoned for life ; and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1793 - 668 pages
...fay as far as it went, for its fault was its being, in the remedial part, miferably defective. There are two capital faults in our law with relation to civil debts. One is, that every man is prefumed folvent. A prefumption, in innumerable cafes, directly againft truth. Therefore the debtor... | |
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