Keeping House
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The English bankrupt laws use the phrase “keeping house” to denote an act of bankruptey. It is committel when a trader absents himself from his place of business and retires to his private residence to evade the importunity of creditors. The usual evidence of “keeping house” is refusal to see a creditor who has called on the debtor at his housa for money.
Robs. Bankr. 119.