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these Statutes cannot cannot receive too liberal a construction, [ILL] he too much [ILL] in suppression of fraud.
The stat: 13 El. c. 5. Which relates to frauds against creditors directs “that no act whatever done to defraud a creditor or creditors shall be of any effect against such creditor or creditors.” But then such a construction is to be made in support of Creditors, as will make third persons sufferes. Therefore, the Statute does not militate against any transaction bona fide, and where there is no imagination of fraud. And so in the common law.
If this dd should be declared void, the Court msut on the same principle declare every assignmt & every mortgage of goods in this Country to be void, if a Credr of the assignor should take out a capias & get a sequestration agt [ILL] his effects.
In this case it has bn said that no advantage could have been shade of the [ILL] Judgement, but it has been said by mistake, for the
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