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DEBTORS ACT 1870

- Act 33 of 1870 - Royal Assent 18 October 1870

Table of Provisions

Long Title

PART I - Preliminary

  • 1 Short title
  • 2 Commencement

PART II - Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt

  • 3 Abolition of imprisonment for debt
  • 4 Saving of power to commit for small debts
  • 5 Power to arrest defendant about to quit Tasmania
  • 6 Sequestration against property of debtor
  • 7 Section 7
  • 8 Definition of term "prescribed"

PART III - Fraud

  • 9 Section 9
  • 10 Section 10
  • 11 Section 11
  • 12 Section 12
  • 13 Debts incurred by fraud
  • 14 Section 14
  • 15 Section 15
  • 16 Section 16
  • 17 Section 17
  • 18 Section 18
  • 19 Section 19
  • 20 Section 20

PART IV - Warrants of Attorney, Cognovits, and Orders for Judgment

  • 21 Warrant of attorney and cognovit actionem to be signed in presence
  • of Australian legal practitioner
  • 22 Warrant, &c., not formally executed invalid
  • 23 Filing of warrant and cognovit
  • 24 Filing of judge's order to enter up judgment, &c.
  • 25 Application to judge's order of Warrants of Attorney Act 1822
  • 26 Section 26
  • 27 Section 27
  • SCHEDULE 1

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