The History of Terrorism
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Interdisciplinary subfields of economics
Law and economics
Economic law
Business law
Insolvency
Debtors' prison
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Debtors' prison
Parents
Debt bondage/Debt slavery
Debts
Insolvency
Legal history
Personal financial problems
Prisons
Western Europe
Children
1798-1801 Robert Morris spent three years, from 1798 to 1801, in the Prune Street Debtors' Prison, Philadelphia
1808-1809 Henry Lee III father of Robert E. Lee, was imprisoned for debt between 1808 and 1809.
1830-1831 He proved effective anyway by promoting legislation to provide court witnesses the option of taking a non-religious oath, and in 1830, abolishing imprisonment for debt.[11] By then much of Fillmore's legal practice was in Buffalo, and later that year he moved there with his family. He did not seek reelection in 1831.[29][31]
Daniel Defoe
Debtors' prisons
James Oglethorpe
James Wilson, a signatory to the Declaration of Independence, spent some time in a debtors' prison while still serving as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
People imprisoned for debt
resettle Britain's worthy poor in the New World, initially focusing on those in debtors' prisons - James Oglethorpe
Samuel Keimer
US Bankruptcy Laws
US Sen Robert Morris
US Supreme Court Justice James Wilson (Founding Father)
Jumps
Poorhouses
Workhouses