Considerations on imprisonment for debt, fully proving, that the confining of the bodies of debtors is contrary to common law, magna charta, statute law, justice, humanity, and policy. And that the practice is more cruel and oppressive than is used in the most arbitrary kingdoms in Europe. : With an account of the various applications to the king and judges by the prisoners of the King's Bench, for obtaining redress; and some remarkable cases of prisoners now confined there. By James Stephen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephen, James, approximately 1733-1779.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debt, Imprisonment for--Great Britain.

Debt, Imprisonment for.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages,84 pages ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : Sold by T. Evans, No. 54. Paternoster-Row, MDCCLXX. [1770]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

With a half-title.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T31250.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.