2088. DEBTS DUE BRITISH, Executions for.—
The immensity of the [Virginia]
debt [to British creditors] was another reason
for forbidding such a mass of property to be
offered for sale under execution at once, as,
from the small quantity of circulating money,
it must have been sold for little or nothing,
whereby the creditor would have failed to receive
his money, and the debtor would have
lost his whole estate without being discharged
of his debt. [126]
—
Report to Congress. Washington ed. ix, 241.
Ford ed., iv, 127.
(1785)
