In Scotch law. A habit which debtors who are set free on a ccssiobonorum are obliged to wear, unless in the summons and process of ccssio it be libeled,PUB tained, and proved that the bankruptcy proeieds from misfortune . And bankruptsare condemned to submit to the habit, even where no suspicion of fraud lies againstthem, if they have been dealers in an illicit trade . Ersk. Prin. 4, 3, 13.
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