Show NO REFUGE IN in olden times severe penalties meted out to men unable to tc pay their debts A curious custom was preval prevail france during the sixteenth anti anil entee nth centuries anyone who it necessary to liquidate his a was obliged to wear a green c humility to himself and a warn others those who mho made a hobby bobby of gi rid of their indebtedness by w the bankruptcy court should it costs steer clear of china ili 1 are almost unknown in country as they entail ec elution ution A similar maillar drastic punishment to be meted out to japan to come nearer home one need go back to a little before the A union to find that debtors in land were obliged to wear garr gan of diverse colors a suit of atu rui yellow being the roost common in slam a man unable to mee mec liabilities was put in chain and belled to work ark as a slave for his aitor should he escape his wife dren father or other relative seized in his stead at one time bankrupts were co ered cred criminal offenders even in land As a matter of fact ce cases of fraudulent bankruptcy incurred the death penalty in country any concealment of b or the secreting of property I 1 debtor wag mas so punished under law n Q man called john perrot hanged in 1701 london tit pio bits |