Insolvent Debtors Relief Act 1678

XIX. Prisoner not to be discharged till Disclosure of his Effects on Oath.

Schedule thereof to be made before Justices, and by them returned to Sessions; Proceedings thereon.

Provided alwayes That noe Prisoner shall be discharged by vertue of this Act untill he shall before the Justices of the Peace who are by this Act impowered to discharge him declare upon his Corporall Oath (which Oath the said Justices are hereby appointed to administer) what Effects are belonging to him or what Debt or Debts are then oweing to him within any of His Majestyes Dominions or elsewhere and by whome, and for what cause and upon what Security, of all which a Schedule shall be made in the presence of such Justices and subscribed by the Prisoner and shall be by such Justices returned to the next Sessions there to be kept for the better Information of the Creditors of such Prisoner who or such of them as will joyne may thereupon sue for such Debts or soe much thereof as will reasonably satisfie them in the Name of the Prisoner and after the same recovered and received to render the overplus (their owne Debts and Charges first deducted) to the Prisoner.