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Abolish Imprisonment for Debt.

BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and

with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

A.D. 1877.

1. The power of imprisonment under the fifth section of the Inferior Debtor's Act, 1869, shall not, after the last day of December one courts not to imprison for thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, be exercised by any court debt. or judge other than a superior court of law or of equity or a judge thereof.