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.