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... BAN K RITPTS. Tim whole system of the bankrupt laws id witl► a lenity which, contemplating only the honest bankrupt, is abus►d in the most scandalous manner by the fraudulent. We believe it to be a fully ascertained fact, that one-half of the bankruptcies ...
... AND EI)I\I3URGII WEEKLY MAGAZINE. SCOTCH BANKRUPT LAW. NOTHING calls more loudly for amendment than the law regarding mercantile bankrupts, and the whole system of recovering debts, whether by execution against the lands, the moveables, or the person ...
... THE SToRY-TELLETL—Props of the Pulpit—Paddy Foorhane's Fricassee 291 COLUMN FOR THE I,AoiEs.—An Essay on Flirts Sc o tch Bankrupt Law VillsEs FOR THE Jack Taylor ib. .87 Universality of Taxation Humorous Letter of an Highland Emigrant • . ib ...
... will never, I venture to predict, ruin himself by hospitality ; a virtue which, according to some folks, fills half the bankrupt list. Verily, there is a smack of rationality in what you say, Captain Woltz. I inn sure hospitality, if it has a home ...
... the sheriff of Calcutta was affixed to the gates of Beth Tephillah, as a part of the personal estate of the ill-fated and bankrupt missionary. The edifice, however, was redeemed from the desecration which otherwise awaited it, by the munificence of an ...
... braving. Ile looked now at one side of the paper, and now at the other, thinking all the while of nothing but the bills and bankrupts' list. Splendid File at B— met his eye, and soon his thoughts were occupied with nothing but II—; tin. there he read that ...
... thus time passed, business was more and more neglected, and Basil abandoning his involved affairs in despair, was declared a bankrupt, and thrown into the Kii. gs Bench. We must now adopt his own words. Nly wife's relations refused to give me any assistance; ...
... and that no lasting prosperity can be based upon injustice and human misery. Whether we look to the wretched slaves, the bankrupt planters, or their creditors, the merchants, who lend out their money upon usury, in vain sought to be wnmg out of the teats ...
... great numbers. It has been estimated, that of 699 country banks in England and Wales, in 1814, 240 either became utterly bankrupt or stopped piyment before the end of the year 1816; nor did the mischief cease here. The currency was not only diminished ...
... they tell me. But London is the place for a good bookseller to thrive ; and you come from London, where you tell me you were bankrupt. 1 would not advise you to have anything more to do with bookselling or bookmaking. Then, as to becoming a planter—Our planters ...
... Away from all our friends! said Lucy. I shall be ashamed, replied I, 66 to see them after all that has happened. A bankrupt cannot have many friends. The best thing that I can possibly do is to go over to a new world, where I may establish a new ...
... years ago, only one tenant nut of 11 who were upon it at the time of the purchase, now remains. All the rest have become bankrupt. The soil is deteriorating from severe cropping, and want of capital, and in many districts of the county, the high farming ...