1. See pag. 285.
2. Ibid.
3. Stat. 1 Jac. I. c. 15. § 17.
4. 4 Inst. 277.
5. The word itself is derived from the word bancus or banque, which signifies the table or counter of a tradesman (Dufresne. I. 969.) and ruptus, broken; denoting thereby one whose shop or place of trade is broken and gone; though others rather cause to adopt the word route, which in French signifies a trace or track, and tell us that a bankrupt is one who has removed his banque, leaving but a trace behind. (4 Inst. 277.) And it is observable that the title of the first English statute concerning this offense, 34 Hen. VIII. c. 4. "against such persons as do make bankrupt," is a literal translation of the French idiom, qui font banque route.
6. Taylor. Common. in L. decemviral. Bynkersh. Observ. Jur. I. 1. Heinece. Antiqu. III. 30. 4.
7. In Pegu, and the adjacent countries in East India, the creditor is entitled to dispose of the debtor himself, and likewise of his wife and children; insomuch that he may even violate with impunity the chastity of the debtor's wife: but then, by so doing, the debt is understood to be discharged. (Mod. Un. Hist. vii. 128.)
8. Cod. 7. 71. per tot.
9. Inst. 4. 6. 40.
10. Nov. 135. c. 1.
11. that is, making contracts. (Dufresne. II. 569.)
12. § 39.
13. § 49.
14. § eod.
15. § 23.
16. Cro. Car. 31.
17. Cro. Car. 549. Skinn. 291.
18. Skinn. 292. 3 Mod. 330.
19. Cro. Car. 31. Skinn. 292.
20. 2 P. Wms. 308.
21. 1 Salk. 110. Skin. 292.
22. Lord Raym. 443.
23. La Vic v. Philips. M. 6 Geo. III. B. R.
24. Stat. 13 Eliz. c. 7.
25. Ibid. 1 Jac. I. c. 15.
26. Stat. 13 Eliz. c. 7.
27. Ibid. 1 Jac. I. c. 15.
28. Stat. 1 Jac. I. c. 15.
29. Ibid.
30. Stat. 21 Jac. I. c. 19.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Stat. 21 Jac. I. c. 19.
34. Stat. 4 Geo. III. c. 33.
35. Lord Raym. 725.
36. 7 Mod. 139.
37. 13 Fliz. c. 7. 1 Jac. I. c. 15. 21 Jac. I. c. 19. 7 Geo. I. c. 31. 5Geo. II. c. 30. 19Geo. II. c. 32. & 24Geo. II. 57.
38. By the laws of Naples all fraudulent bankrupts, particularly such as do not surrender themselves within four days, are punished with death: also all who conceal the effects of a bankrupt, or set up a pretended debt to defraud his creditors. (Mod. Un. Hist. xxviii. 320.)
39. By the Roman law of cession, if the debtor acquired any considerable property subsequent to the giving up of his all, it was liable to the demands of his creditors. (Ff. 42. 3. 4.) But this did not extent to such allowance as was left to him on the score of compassion, for the maintenance of himself and family. Si quid misericordiae causa ei fuerit relictum, puta menstruum vel annum, alimentorum nomine, non oportet propter hoc bona ejus iterat• venundari: nee enim fraudandus est alimentis cottidianis. [If any thing shall have been left him through compassion, suppose monthly or yearly, as a maintenance, he is not obliged on this account again to sell his goods: for he is not to be deprived of his daily subsistence.] (Ibid 1.6.)
40. Stat. 28 Geo. II. c. 13. 32 Geo. II. c. 28. 1 Geo. III. c. 17. 5. Geo. III. c. 41.
41. pag. 285.
42. 12 Mod. 324.
43. Salk. 110.
44. 4 Burr. 32.
45. Atk. 262.
46. Viner. Abr. t. creditor and bankr. 104.
47. Sp. L. b. 29. c. 16.
48. Finch. Rep. 466.
49. Atk. 103, 104.
50. Lord Raym. 1549.
51. 2 Ch. Cas. 144.
52. Atk. 244.
