Court Opinion

ID: 8315756
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-17 20:01:04.26603+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:44:55.860420
License: Public Domain

The CouRT
(Morsell, J. absent,)
was of opinion that it is not a bar.
Under the seventh section of the Act of March 3, 1803, the debtor convicted “ of fraud or deceit towards his creditors, or of having lost by gaming as aforesaid, or of having given any preference as aforesaid,” “shall be precluded from any benefit under this act; ” which words are explained, in the second section of the Act of 1812, by the words, “ he shall not be permitted to take the said oath, and shall be precluded from any benefit under the said Act; ” whereas, by the same sections of those acts, persons guilty of perjury in the proceedings under the said Act, “shall be forever precluded from any benefit under this Act.”
The word “forever,” seems to make a distinction in the extent of the penalty affixed to the two offences. In the first case, it seems to contemplate a denial of a discharge from that imprisonment only of which the petitioner complains; in the second, a perpetual bar in all cases, because no credit can be given to his oath after a conviction of perjury.