Under the Insolvent Debtors’ Act, 7 0. 4, e. 57, s. 34, where actual imprisonment within the walls of a prison follows upon arrest, as one continuous act, within the usual. time allowed by the course of practice, the arrest is the commencement of the imprisonment : but where after arrest any delay not sanctioned by law takes place before the actual commitment of the Defendant to prison, there, not the arrest, but the actual coming within the walls of the prison, is the commencement of the imprisonment.
Citations:
[1837] EngR 826, (1837) 3 Bing NC 907, (1837) 132 ER 660
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Insolvency
Updated: 06 February 2022; Ref: scu.313943