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 Ch. 18. thee, and a variety of other caes, which it is impoible here to enumerate, the forfeiture does not accrue to the lord till after the offences are preented by the homage, or jury of the lord's court baron ; per laudamentum parium uorum : or, as it is more fully expreed in another place, nemo miles adimatur de poeione ui beneficii nii convicta culpa, quae it laudanda per judicium parium uorum.

VIII. eighth and lat method, whereby lands and tenements may become forfeited, is that of bankruptcy, or the act of becoming a bankrupt: which unfortunate peron may, from the everal decriptions given of him in our tatute law, be thus defined; a trader, who ecretes himelf, or does certain other acts, tending to defraud his creditors.

hall be uch a trader, or what acts are ufficient to denominate him a bankrupt, with the everal connected conequences reulting from that unhappy ituation, will be better conidered in a ubequent chapter; when we hall endeavour more fully to explain it's nature, as it mot immediately relates to peronal goods and chattels. I hall only here oberve the manner in which the property of lands and tenements are transferred, upon the uppoition that the owner of them is clearly and indiputably a bankrupt, and that a commiion of bankrupt is awarded and iued againt him.

the tatute 13 Eliz. c. 7. the commiioners for that purpoe, when a man is declared a bankrupt, hall have full power to dipoe of all his lands and tenements, which he had in his own right at the time when he became a bankrupt, or which hall decend or come to him at any time afterwards, before his debts are atisfied or agreed for; and all lands and tenements which were purchaed by him jointly with his wife or children to his own Rh