| Kentucky, Charles Slaughter Morehead, Mason Brown - Law - 1834 - 810 pages
...debtor, where there is not strong presumption of fraud, shall not be continued in prison after delivering up his estate for the benefit of his creditors, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. SECTION 18. That no ex post facto law, («) nor any law impairing contracts, shall be made.... | |
| George Shall Yerger, Tennessee. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1834 - 626 pages
...debtor where there is not strong presumption of fraud, shall not be continued in prison after delivering up his estate for the benefit of his creditors in such manner as prescribed by law, says the constitution. Controlled by this restriction, has the the legislature acted... | |
| Maryland in Liberia, Maryland State Colonization Society - African Americans - 1837 - 186 pages
...debtor, where there is not strong presumption of fraud, shall not be detained in prison after delivering up his estate for the benefit of his creditors, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. 12. The members of the community have a right, in a peaceable manner, to assemble together... | |
| Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1839 - 310 pages
...debtoi, where there is not strong presumption of fraud, shall not be continued in prison after delivering up his estate for the benefit of his creditors in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. SECT. XVII. That no ex post facto law, nor any law impairing contracts, shall be made. SECT.... | |
| Philip Phillips - Law reports, digests, etc - 1840 - 412 pages
...Debtors when presumption of fraud, shall not be detained in prison, after de- discharged. livering up his estate for the benefit of his creditors, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. SEC. 19. No expost facto law, nor law impairing the obliga- No expost faction of contracts,... | |
| Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...debtor, where there is not strong presumption of fraud, shall not be continued in prison after delivering up his estate for the benefit of his creditors in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. 17. That no ex post facto law, nor any law impairing contracts, shall be made. 18. That no... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 pages
...presumption of fraud, ought not to be continued in prison after he shall have delivered up his properly for the benefit of his creditors, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. SEC. 8. No ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be made.... | |
| Jacob Frieze - Dorr Rebellion, 1842 - 1842 - 192 pages
...presumption of fraud, ought not to be continued in prison, after he shall have delivered up his property for the benefit of his creditors, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. Sec. 8. No ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be made.... | |
| Constitutions - 1843 - 434 pages
...the offence ; the true design of all punishments being to reform, and not to exterminate mankind. 15. No person shall be imprisoned for debt, unless upon refusal to deliver up bis estate for the benefit of his creditors, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law, or in cases... | |
| Rhode Island - Law - 1844 - 612 pages
...presumption of fraud, ought not to be continued in prison, after he shall have delivered up his property for the benefit of his creditors, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. SEC. 12. No ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be passed.... | |
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