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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06786	Consuetudo, vel lex mercatoria, or The ancient law-merchant Diuided into three parts: according to the essentiall parts of trafficke. Necessarie for all statesmen, iudges, magistrates, temporall and ciuile lawyers, mint-men, merchants, marriners, and all others negotiating in all places of the world. By Gerard Malynes merchant.	Malynes, Gerard, fl. 1586-1641.	1622 (1622)	STC 17222; ESTC S114044	480,269	516

bread and water for a time at the discretion of the Iudge But if the debtor be so poore and notwithstanding hath such a cruell aduersarie that will make dice of his bones that is say to haue his debtor die in prison and to hang vp a bale of dice for him in the Crowne Office as is done by the Officer in place or the Goaler then hath the Law beyond the seas prouided some reliefe for this poore man for the custome is in Germanie France Italie Spain and the Low Countries that no man is imprisoned for debt aboue a yere and a day in which time the creditors haue power to take seise and sell all the estate of the debtor which being done or before the woman in most places may claime her dower for her reliefe children and the rest is diuided amongst the creditors as far as it will go and so the debtor is freed from those debts for euer for by the Ciuile Law Qui vult cedere bonis liberatus est a debito if the debtor do relinquish his estate to the creditor he is free from the debts and all goods falling to him afterwards are his owne But this man is euer after disabled to come to any preferment and such a creditor as is the cause of it will be hated and accounted worse than a Iew or Pagan For the manner of Cedere bonis or to make cession of goods is verie hainous The manner of Cedere bonis and of wonderfull disgrace so that most men will rather die in miserie than to come vnto it because it happeneth not once in twentie yeares yet is it farre inferiour to the punishment of the pillorie or the striking ouer the legge vsed in Russia at the creditors instance whereby the debtor is set at libertie and the debt paid The partie commeth before the towne-house and standeth vpon a stone in the view of all the people and vnloosing his girdle he desireth them and all the world to take notice that he hath nothing left him to pay his creditors and so renounceth all what may be found to be his or what any manner of waies he might pretend and in token thereof he may not weare his girdle any more nor be imployed in any businesse as a liuing man yet afterwards by some composition to be made with the creditors he may be restored by a declaration to be made by some Officer vpon the said stone and then he is permitted to weare his girdle againe In the said countries no gentleman or man of qualitie may be imprisoned at all for debts his estate onely is liable thereunto and yet with reseruation of such necessarie things as Honestie Honour Humanitie and Christianitie doth challenge namely the souldiours Person his Armes his Apparrell Bed and Chamber conueniently and necessarily furnished which may not be taken for debt and the like reseruation is made to euerie other man of qualitie so that imprisonment of men bodies for debt according to the common practise of England is a greater burden and bondage than is to be found in any other christian or heathen countrie And for asmuch as the mischiefe and incoueniences arising to the King and Common-wealth by the imprisoning of mens bodies for debt haue beene propounded heretofore in Parlement by a printed remonstrance which like vnto a Pamphlet may be lost whereby good matters are many times put in obliuion I haue thought conuenient to make an abstract thereof in the maner as the said reasons are laid downe to be inserted in this booke in hope of some releefe vnto decayed Merchants whose estates may remaine liable to answere their creditors without imprisoning of their bodies against the Law of God the Law of man the Rule of justice the Law of conscience and christian charitie and against the Practise of other countries as aforesaid and finally against the creditors owne profit The Law of God willeth and commaundeth euerie man to follow a vocation to doe the honour Against the law of God duties and seruices owing to his Prince and countrie and Parents and to maintaine his wife children and family and to instruct them in the feare of God so that whatsoeuer directly or indirectly forbiddeth the said christian duties in the performing thereof by an imprisonment is against the law of God whereupon all humane lawes ought to be grounded No law of God willeth or commaundeth imprisonments of mens bodies for debt nor is it warranted by any example in the word of God and the efficient meanes bringing men into prison as vsurie is appeareth plainely to be forbidden by the word of God as hath beene noted out of the old law neither hath the law of the Gospell a word of commaund or warrant for imprisoning a christian brother for debt Exod. 22.26 Deut. 23.19 Leuit. 25 35. Ezech. 18 8. Ieremy 34.14 but rather containeth a commaund to relieue him if he be fallen into decay to take care how and wherein he shall sleepe to set him free at sixe yeares end and then to reward him By the Law of man it was not so Ab initio for by the Common Laws of England Against the law of man which are the most ancient most eminent most binding lawes no man may be taken or imprisoned for debt but the creditor was to take satisfaction vpon the debtors estate of goods lands according to Magna Char. 3. H. 3. and 14. Ed. 3. although after accountants onely were to be imprisoned vntill they paied which was made generall against all debtors by the statute of the 25. Ed. 3. cap. 17. yet prisoners in Execution might and did follow their vocation and affaires by baile mainprise or baston as by the statute of 1. Rich. 2. cap. 12. and from that time forwards were prisoners tied vp shorter to the writ of Habeas corpus or the Kings speciall mandate vpon surmises Habeas corpus that the said debtors made secret estates in trust to defraud their creditors or were wilfull and obstinate to pay them being able To answere these obiections it is vniust to punish all promiscuously aswell frauders as non frauders without and before any proofe made yet if the fraud were proued or his abilitie and sufficiencie either there is no cause to imprison his bodie because the law doth giue the estate fourthwith to the creditor whether the debtor will or no so it is still needlesse to imprison the bodie for twentie yeares imprisonment discounteth neuer a pennie of the debt and yet the debtor hath suffered more miserie and punishment than a guiltie Traytor or Rebell suffereth for the highest offence It is against the rule of Iustice and law of Nature Against the rule of Iustice. that men equally free borne should be depriued of the common and equall libertie and bee giuen into the power of another without criminall cause or guilt The debtor is either punished for guilt or cohersion if for guilt it is against the rule of