Legal Wording Query

[vita]

Could someone please tell me what this 1840 announcement actually means?

"The following prisoners, whose estates and effects have been vested in the

provisional assignee by order of the court, having filed their schedules, are

ordered to be brought up before the court ...."

Would the "provisional assignee" be the plaintiff in the case? Also, I'm not

clear about the filing of schedules ref.

Thanks in anticipation.

[Phoenix]

Always dangerous to guess, but it looks like a way of sorting out a bankrupt's affairs.

Here is a book on contemporary cases: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=q4UsAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA136&lpg=RA1-PA136&dq=debt+%22provisional+assignee%22&source=bl&ots=gtwKTr3YPp&sig=qpoxL4bQWajqx9kC9ksi4YO1qgY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FjrXVMv9JMyOaNPagJgM&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=debt%20%22provisional%20assignee%22&f=false

[Olde Crone]

This is to do with bankruptcy? The provisional assignee isn't usually the plaintiff, goods etc are usually held by a third party (the official solicitor or the court) until all is sorted out. There may be more than one plaintiff in a bankruptcy case and there may be more than one debt which needs to be settled.

I think the filing of schedules would refer to the prisoner's offers to pay but that's a guess.

OC

[vita]

Thanks both - should find that link helpful, Phoenix. Yes OC, it does refer to bankruptcy -

my lot were in & out of prison at an alarming rate, but always for debt, so it could have

been worse.