The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-08-02 00:00:00

EXT &NTS-IN-AID.

We are happy to be Ode to congratulate the public oe
what may, we hope, be coeuridered as the abolition of the
process of Exteenin•Aid. Then writs, origisally 'rested
for the security of the Rnesue of the Crows (now
more properly of the public), were issued on so •ffid•-
•it, that "unless the Crown debtor could obtain pay-
ment of the debt he sought to recover," he would " be
lees able" to discharge his own debts " to the Crowe:"
messing doubtless, such a diminution of his ability,
as would teenager the payment of An Crowu debt ;
sod, befog so coseeived, Ibis eonstrtietion was gene-
rally acted oo for a bag course of years, dieing which
the whole onneher Issued was comparatively very small
Some very iegeolins person, however, bad •Insts per.
calved, Aro, that any dierieetion of the surplus of their
clear property above all demands (one pound nut of •
a thousand, fur integre), might by possibility render then,
len able to pay their debt.; and bail, therefore, reconciled
their comitlenees to • crinoline. with the oath, though im.
posed with a different iuttistiou, and which, so taken, armed
to plain sad ussophisties fed understandings, little short of per.
jory. About the yearl 812, they further discovered that almuid
soy debt due to the Crown, however contracted, or to however
small as mogul, might by costeivance be made available
to *Wan this preens in Ilk ir ewe favour, to secure debts
to any sanest, however large, due to them, or to the part.
serail,* in which they were engaged; end it is not wonderful
that whets the facility of acing is such • system was diem-
erred, the member of instances of abuse should increase. Ac-
cordingly, the extents issued presently swelled from 10 or 20
to 420 in one year seed out by /11•Inten, Receivers-General,
Spirit Dealers, Farmers of Putt Hasse Dollen, Collectors. of
Assessed soil other Taxes, Remittent of Public Monies,
Sureties end 6011141111111e111 fur ell such person., end many
others; scarcely in any Biagio instance for the tweet of the
Crown, but fur the exclusive advantage of sucli individuals,
to the gross injury of ether creditors, and sionnieues is the
loss sad hijory of the Crows. itself, elate security was the
°nines' and only legitimate object of the Fronts. InlBls as
Act was obtained, by which there entrant abuses were in some
degree checked, but the principle was left, and the eyil was
VOWS as the fume..., till, by the contieued attentions of some
Gentlemen who had kept a eminent watch oe the business, a
Rule of the Court of Exchequer was ',binned on the motion
of the At tunny G. I, un Saturday. uhe 22J °ldiom last, by
which, through an alter 'now of the affidavit, the process has
been again limited to its original lotion ion, viz. to ikon cases
where the Crow, debt would be is real danger, i.e. where the
recovery of the debt is necessary to preserve the solvency of
the Crows debtor, mid where, therseove, asi his taking the
oath bolus
_fide as required, ii Incomes the duty of the officers
of the reverser, or other seining of she Crown, immediately
to pray fur as Extent in Chief again( Aim, which doubtless
will, is fetter, be put in practice.
The following is the order to which we have just &hailed:
Copy Order of the Court of Erns quer, respertieig tee Affi-
davit oh which the Process of Extents.is•Aid shall in fu-
ture be issued.
tiesoffell Order.—RidorJay„ 22i1Juse, 1824.
" Urea the motion of Mr. Attorney-General, it is ordered,
That from hniceforth so Fiat for as Extent-in-Aid shall be
palmed, oaks. the party applying for the sane, or some
person ar persons us his behalf, shall snake affidavit diar,
Nolen the Process of Extent fur the debt din to him from his
debt., ho forthwith bisegd, the debt deer the Oman, from
tin party applyisig will be is danger at laws WI to tire
I Goats.
" /ante Dierioa, RPg."