Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law Between Debtor and Creditor, Showing Some of the Principal Defects in the Present Bankrupt System, and Proving Them by Several Interesting Cases: With Extracts of Importance From the Evidence of the Late Sir Samuel Romilly, and Other Witnesses, Taken Before Select Committee of the House of Commons On reading the Minutes ofe'vidence taken before the Select Committee, on the Bankrupt Laws, I regretted to find, that the evidence was chiefly con fined to the supposed interests of creditors, while the interests of debtors and their necessary pro tection from injustice and oppression, have been but slightly noticed. The best way to protect the creditor is, I_presume, to begin with doing justice to the debtor; for, the same cause which makes it so easy to oppress the debtor produces injury to the creditor. Besides, -it ought not to be forgotten. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.