IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, March 12. Mr Justice Denniston gave an important decision to-day, when be granted leave to enforce a sentence of a week’s imprisonment in default of paying the amount of a judgment in the Resident Magistrate’s Court made agaiust a man who filed his schedule just after the order of the Resident Magistrate was made, and who had had means to pay the judgment but would not do so. His Honor said that the man had no right to file merely to avoid satisfying the jadgment, and not for the purpoie of dividing hia assets among his creditors. .
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 994, 20 March 1891, Page 17
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107IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. New Zealand Mail, Issue 994, 20 March 1891, Page 17
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