Victorian insolvency : bankruptcy, imprisonment for debt, and company winding-up in nineteenth-century England /

Victorian Insolvency explores for the first time the financial, legal, and administrative aspects of insolvency in nineteenth-century England. V. Markham Lester gives a detailed statistical analysis covering bankruptcy, imprisonment for debt, and company winding-up during the period, and traces the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lester, V. Markham
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1995.
Series:	Oxford historical monographs.
Subjects:	Bankruptcy > Great Britain > History. Liquidation > Great Britain > History. Liquidation (Droit) > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire. Bankruptcy Liquidation Great Britain Bankrott Insolvenz Großbritannien Faillissement. Liquidatie. Insolvabiliteit. Faillite > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle. Liquidation > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle. Emprisonnement pour dettes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle. Bankruptcy > History England Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Introduction of 'Officialism', 1831-1856
3. Insolvency outside Bankruptcy: Imprisonment for Debt in the Nineteenth Century
4. Retreat from 'Officialism', 1857-1869
5. Return to 'Officialism', 1870-1883
6. Company Winding-up in Victorian England
7. Some Characteristics of Insolvency Levels
8. Aftermath and Summary of Conclusions.