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Poor Debtor

Defined in 1 dictionary — Cyclopedic (1922)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

One who, being imprisoned in a civil action, has no property to pay the debt whereon the same was issued, and who is accordingly entitled to his release on making oath to such fact, and on other conditions variously affixed by statute.