Seven letters to the lords and commons of Great Britain, upon the impolicy, inhumanity, and injustice, of our present mode of arresting the bodies of debtors [electronic resource] : Shewing the inconsistency of it, with Magna Carta and a free constitution: with observations on the draging of debtors to Sponging-Houses, and to prisons in the first instance, before the debt is proved, upon the bare affidavit of the vilest character: and likewise some remarks on the fatal effects of such proceedings, on the circumstances and morals of individuals. The whole illustrated by a variety of cases, taken from real life. By Josiah Dornford, Esq.
1786
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Seven letters to the lords and commons of Great Britain, upon the impolicy, inhumanity, and injustice, of our present mode of arresting the bodies of debtors [electronic resource] : Shewing the inconsistency of it, with Magna Carta and a free constitution: with observations on the draging of debtors to Sponging-Houses, and to prisons in the first instance, before the debt is proved, upon the bare affidavit of the vilest character: and likewise some remarks on the fatal effects of such proceedings, on the circumstances and morals of individuals. The whole illustrated by a variety of cases, taken from real life. By Josiah Dornford, Esq.
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London : Printed by J. Andrews, Little Eastcheap; and sold by J. Bew, No. 22, Paternoster Row; W. Richardson, Royal Exchange; and No. 14, Philpot-Lane, [1786]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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[4],iv,3-78p. ; 8⁰.
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Price in square brackets: Where may be had, the author's nine letters to the lord mayor and aldermen, on the state of the prisons; his letters on the police; and other tracts. (Price 1s. 6d.)
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Price in square brackets: Where may be had, the author's nine letters to the lord mayor and aldermen, on the state of the prisons; his letters on the police; and other tracts. (Price 1s. 6d.)
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