Acre

measures, is a quantity ACT OF GRACE, in the Scotch of land containing in length forty law, is the name by which the statute perches, and four in breadth, or one which provides for the aliment of is usually known. This statute provides that where a prisoner for debt declares upon oath, before the magistrate of the jurisdiction, that he has not wherewith to maintain himself, the magistrate may set himat liberty, if the creditor, in consequence of whose dilizence he was imprisoned, does not aliment him within ten days after intimation for that purpose, 1696, c.

323 Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 4, 3,14.

This is s»mewhat similar to a provision in the insolvent act of Pennsylvania.