INSOLVENT DEBTORS

    Where special acts had passed that session, authority
given to one or more judges of the respective county
courts, in court sitting, or any one judge in the recess,
to extend to the petitioners the benefit of the insolvent
laws,
 
 

    Acts for the relief of the several persons named
on the terms therein mentioned,
 
 

    All conveyances, assignments, &c. of any property,
rights, &c. to a creditor, or security thereafter made
by any person with a view of becoming an insolvent
debtor, and with an intent to give an undue preference,
declared null and void,
—Such property, rights, &c. to vest in the trustees
as any property specified in the schedule,
    Creditors assenting to the debtors obtaining the benefit
to make affidavit, &c. to their claims, without
which annexed, they are not to be considered as such,
    Debtors complying with the terms, except obtaining
the assent of two-thirds of their creditors in amount,
entitled to a personal discharge, except where interrogatories
are filed and not satisfactorily answered,
—Provided they authorise some attorney to appear
for them,
    No person entitled to the benefit oftener than once
in two years,
—Nor to a second release without conveying to his
trustee estate sufficient to pay 50 per cent. of his debts
at the time,
—Nor a third time, without sufficient to pay 75 per
cent. but not to prevent a personal release in such cases,
    Cases in which the court may inquire whether the
assent of creditors is unreasonably withheld, and dispense
with the same,
    The appointment of trustees to operate as an assignment
of the insolvent's property, so as to vest the title,
without a deed,
    Nothing herein contained to extend to applications,
then pending for the benefit of the insolvent laws,
    Acts for the relief of the several persons
named on the terms therein mentioned,
 

—Same,
 

—Same,
 

    The regulations respecting the assay of plate in Baltimore
county, not to affect the sales of plate the property
of insolvent debtors,
    Directions as to the continuance of petitions then
depending,
    Petitions for the benefit of the acts not to be continued
beyond the first court next after the filing thereof,
unless thought necessary by the court for further testimony,
    On application to a judge the petition not to be dismissed
by the county court before the time appointed
for hearing by the judge,

  1811      108
  1812          7
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  1813        96
  1812        17
                  93
                108
                111
                137
                153
                190
 
 

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May 1813  4
               9
             14
  1813          4
                127
                140
  1814        16
      28
      96
    108
    110
 

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  1817      183