"Bankruptcy in my opinion ever was and yet is considered as a crime, whatever tradesmen may now think of it. It was anciently punished with corporal punishment."
— Bankruptcy

January 1, 1970

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Abney, J., Tribe v. Webber (1744), Willes, 466 n. (a); in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 17.