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Insolvent Debtors Relief Act 1678
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XV.Prisoner released, found or suspected to have Goods, &c. above Allowance by this or former Act
Exception; and not paying his Debts.; Oath may be again tendered, and on Refusal Prisoner remanded.
Provided alwayes and bee it enacted That if any Prisoner that shall be released by vertue of this Act shall at any time afterwards be found or suspected by any of his Creditors to have in ready Money Goods or Chattells in his owne hands and possession or in the hands of any others to his or her use or in Trust for him or her in value over and above what he or she is allowed by this or the said former Act to have [X1or] then such Goods in his Shop or Worke house as he shall have beene credited or trusted with since the time of his Discharge and for what he shall be really indebted at the time of [X2his] makeing such Oath and he or she will not or doe not, upon convenient Demand pay his or her Debt or Debts therewith as farr as the same will reach That then and in such case at the request of any Creditor the said Oath shall be tendered to him or her againe by any Justice of the Peace in this Act before impowered to administer the [X2said] Oath for Discharge of Prisoners or by any Judge of the Court wherein there is Judgement against him which he or she refuseing to take shall be remanded to Prison in Execution for such Debt or Debts Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.
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