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La Narrativa de Henry Fielding y la Sociedad Inglesa del Siglo XVIII

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The legal Process for the collection of<br />

<strong>de</strong>bts: an instrument in the hands of the<br />

creditor<br />

Creditor proceeds<br />

against <strong>de</strong>btor's<br />

property<br />

By seizing it By having sheriff auction it<br />

Debtor goes to prison<br />

Creditor brings<br />

suit<br />

Writ for arrest issued Summons issued<br />

Debtor arrested<br />

Deci<strong>de</strong>d pro creditor Deci<strong>de</strong>d pro <strong>de</strong>btor<br />

Creditor proceeds<br />

against <strong>de</strong>btor's<br />

body<br />

Debtor in prison<br />

Debtor puts up bail<br />

Suit comes to trial<br />

Mesne Process<br />

Final process<br />

Fuente: Joanna Innes, “The King’s Bench Prison in the <strong>la</strong>ter eighteenth century: <strong>la</strong>w,<br />

authority and or<strong>de</strong>r in a London Debtor’s prison”, en An Ungobernable People. The<br />

English and their <strong>la</strong>w in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ed. John Brewer &<br />

John Styles, Hutchinson, London, 1983, p. 252.

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