DEBTOR’S ACT OF 1869
Debtor’s Act of 1869.An English statute that, among other things, (1) abolished imprisonment
for debt except in certain cases, as when a debtor owed a debt to the Crown or a debtor had money
but refused to pay a debt, (2) abolished arrest by mesne process, that is, by compelling the
defendant to appear and give bail unless it was believed that the defendant would leave the country,
(3) made it a misdemeanor to obtain credit under false pretenses or to defraud creditors, and (4)
defined how warrants and judgment orders would be executed. [Blacks Law 8th]