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Victorian Insolvency: Bankruptcy, Imprisonment for Debt, and Company Winding-Up in Nineteenth-Centur

Victorian Insolvency: Bankruptcy, Imprisonment for Debt, and Company Winding-Up in Nineteenth-Centur

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In this first legal and financial history of bankruptcy in nineteenth-century England, V. Markham Lester offers a full statistical analysis and detailed account of bankruptcy, imprisonment for debt, and company winding-up, and traces the decline in the level of insolvency towards the end of the century. His scholarly and detailed analysis demonstrates the validity of the Victorians' notion that financial failure was a significant problem for English society, and shows that random factors may have played as great a role as cyclical fluctuations in bankruptcy levels.
Victorian Insolvency also adds a new and significant dimension to the debate on government growth by analyzing for the first time the part the English legal system played in the growth of British government. By the end of the nineteenth century, the administration of bankrupt estates was one of the largest items of government expenditure. significant problem for English society.

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BrandClarendon Press
Pub dateApr 13, 1995
ISBN-10019820518X
ISBN-139780198205180
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions8.75 × 1.01 × 5.75 in
Weight1 lb
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