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Judgment-debtor summons. The (English) Bank-ruptcy Act, 1861, ss. 76-85, provided for the issue of this kind of summons by a judgment creditor in default of payment of whose debt the debtor might be adjudicated bankrupt. It was replaced in 1869 by the 'Debtor's Summons' under s. 7 of the (English) Bankruptcy Act of 1869, which was itself replaced by the 'Bankruptcy Notice' under the Acts of 1883 and 1914.