The Court were clear that the words debt or debts, used in the act, extended to demands due on judgment, whether upon tort or contract; and they said it had so been holden before.(a)
Motion granted.
(a).
See The People v. The Marine Court of New York, (3 Cowen’s Rep. 366,) where the same construction was given to the act for the relief of debtors, with respect to the imprisonment of their persons. (1 R. L. 348.)