STULTILOQUIUM
Categories: Contracts
Definition (1910 Edition)
bankruptcy, which consists in making affidavit of the debt, and giving a bond to follow up the proceedings with effect. 2 Steph.
Lat. Inold English law. Vicious pleading, for which a fine was imposed by King John, supposed to be the origin of the fines for beau-pleader. Crabb, Eng. Law, 135.
Lat. Inold English law. Vicious pleading, for which a fine was imposed by King John, supposed to be the origin of the fines for beau-pleader. Crabb, Eng. Law, 135.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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