Report from Select Committee on the Insolvent Debtors Acts...
[Bankruptcy]. [Great Britain]. [House of Commons]. Report from Select Committee on the Insolvent Debtors Acts, 53 & 54 Geo. III: With the Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Committee. [Wrapper Title: Report on the Insolvent Debtors Acts.] [London]: Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 1816. 115 pp. Folio (13-3/4" x 8-1/2"; 35 x 21.7 cm). Original printed blue wrappers, edges untrimmed. Light soiling, edgewear and some fading to wrappers, later hand-lettered title to spine, which is partially abraded. Light toning, internally clean. A good copy in its original state. $150. * Bankruptcy reform was an important (and perennial) topic in British politics, and a number of parliamentary committees were established to examine the issue in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This report concerns the Insolvent Debtors (England) Act of 1813 and a subsequent act clarifying some of its provisions (53 Geo. 3. c. 102 and 54 Geo. 3. c. 13). The Act attempted to improve conditions for those in debtors' prisons by creating a special appeals court where prisoners could apply for release on conditions negotiated with their creditors. (This court remained in existence until 1861.) The report concluded that the court was insufficiently attuned to the needs of creditors and too generous to debtors. Pre-1836 Parliamentary papers are scarce today. They were not available to the public, so they were produced in small numbers.
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