Insolvent Court

Insolvent Court, engrossed an address of condolence to him, which looked like a Lease, and which all the prisoners signed.

Little Dorrit 2007

These gentlemen are the Commissioners of the Insolvent Court, and the place in which they sit, is the Insolvent Court itself.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

Insolvent Court, several small housekeepers who are employed in the Docks,

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

Now, the place where this discourse occurred was the public – house just opposite to the Insolvent Court; and the person with whom it was held was no other than the elder Mr. Weller, who had come there, to comfort and console a friend, whose petition to be discharged under the act, was to be that day heard, and whose attorney he was at that moment consulting.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

He was as good – natured a dancing – master as ever danced to the Insolvent Court, and he kept his word.

Little Dorrit 2007

It scarcely need be said that he had been through the Insolvent Court many times.

Mens Wives 2006

No one durst push his neighbour for payment of debt: were such a thing attempted, an immediate surrender of his affairs to the official trustee of the Insolvent Court, was the consequence.

Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson

The confiding characters of tailors being generally acknowledged, it is almost needless to state, that the _faintest_ indication of seediness will be fatal to your reputation; and as a presentation at the Insolvent Court is equally fashionable with that of St. James, any squeamishness respecting your inability to pay could only be looked upon as a want of moral courage upon your part, and

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 Various

Five years ago he drove his four-in-hand; he is now waiting to beg a sovereign, having been just discharged from the Insolvent Court, for the second time.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

Doubtful whether to apply to the Insolvent Court to protect me, or let ruin come.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston