The Absconding Debtors Act 1870
WHEREAS the laws now in force for the arrest of debtors absconding from England are insufficient for that purpose: And whereas frauds may be perpetrated upon creditors by insolvent debtors departing for distant countries before the necessary proceedings can be taken to make them bankrupt: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority ...