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Crown debts

to the Crown is a Crown-debtor. When upon in quisition a personis found to be a Crown-debtor by simple contract, the debt immediately becomes a specialty; but a person givien to the Crown a bond on condition is

Concessit solvere

Concessit solvere (he agreed to pay), an action of debt upon a simple contract. It lies by custom in the Mayor's Court, London, and Bristol Tolzey Court. The defence to a count

Acknowledgment of debt or liability

1 Ch 219, but an acknowledgment at anytime before action brought will revive actions, on debt grounded on simple contract, if in writing under 9 Geo. 4, c. 14, and for money charged on land under s. 40

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Fines in copyholds

been extinguished as provided by the Act, and by s. 130(5) of that Act fines are recoverable as simple contract debts and not otherwise. Part II of the 13th Sched. Of that Act sets out the scale of