The Provincial Justice, Or Magistrate's Manual: Being a Complete Digest of the Criminal Law, and a Compendious and General View of the Provincial Law; With Practical Forms, for the Use of the Magistracy of Upper Canada (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Provincial Justice, or Magistrate's Manual: Being a Complete Digest of the Criminal Law, and a Compendious and General View of the Provincial Law; With Practical Forms, for the Use of the Magistracy of Upper Canada

The Legislature also in the last session passed an act to mitigate imprisonment for debt, the provisions of which are noticed in the addenda. As the act directs that no person, after the first of June, instant, shall be arrested for any debt under £10, it Will of course limit the power of Justices in issuing detaining warrants under the 10 G. 4. C. 2. (revived and continued by the 4 W. 4. C. To the like amount. The intention of the act 18 humane, and will probably result in another good, viz. The prevention of wilful and corrupt perjury, by restraining the too common practice of issuing Writs of capias for trifling amounts and without adequate cause.

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