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Thread #63041   Message #1022029
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
19-Sep-03 - 05:28 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Billy Barlow in Australia
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: BILLY BARLOW IN AUSTRALIA
Found that capias ad respondendum and capias ad satisfaciendum were used in action in the state of New Jersey in 1971, and that a comission reviewing New Jersey law in 1997 recommended that these statutes be repealed. Although long term imprisonment had been stopped in 1844, the legal use of the statutes continued. Capias ad res... compels defendants personal availability. If judgement was against the defendant, under capias ad satisfaciendum the defendant can be arrested and held until he pays, or his personal insolvancy is established.
Don't know if the statutes were repealed in New Jersey, or what the status is elsewhere-

So watch out-- somewhere, sometime, they may still get you!!