Solomons 97

3.  A  debtor  running  off  negroes  from  Mississippi  to  Texas,  for  the  purpose  of  defeating  '
his  creditors,  is  such  a  fraud  as  will  deprive  him  of  the  benefit  of  the  Insolvent
Debtors1  Acts  in  this  State.     Wiley ,  Banks  ^  Co.  m.  Lawson 152

4.  Where  a  debtor  conveys  land  to  a  trustee  for  the  benefit  of  his  creditors,  his  after-
wards selling  and  conveying  the  land  to  another,  inasmuch  as  it  tends  to  hinder
and  delay  the  creditors,  may  be  sueh  a  fraud  upon  them  as  will  deprive  him  of  the
benefit  of  the  Insolvent  Debtors'  Acts lb.
5.  New  trial,  on  the  ground  that  the  finding  of  the  jury  on  the  different  issues  upon  a
suggestion  under  the  Insolvent  Debtor's  Act,  was  contradictory,  refused.  Bran-
den  if  Nelhers  vs.  Qowing 459

6.  Where  an  applicant  for  the  benefit  of  the  Insolvent  Debtor's  Act  is  charged  with
having  made  a  fraudulent  disposition  of  his  estate,  it  need  not  appear  that  the  dis-
position was  made  within  thwe  months  before  hisoenfinement 16.
INTEREST.
1 .  A  written  oontract  to  pay  a  stipulated  sum  for  work  to  be  done— the  contractor  bind-
ing himself  to  finish  it  by  a  day  fixed— carries  interest  from  the  time  the  work  is

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5*4  INDEX.
finished.    Kennedy  vs.  Bamiceil y  •  ••  •■» 124

Vide  Indemnity,  Contract  of.    Pleading.
JAILER.
1.  A  jailer  is  an  officer  amenable  to  the  provisions  of  the  Act  of  1629  (6  Stat.  390)
"  for  the  punishment  of  the  official  misconduct  of  district  officers."  State  vs.  Sel-
lers    368

2  A  jailer  indicted  for  official  misconduct  cannot  show  in  defence,  that  his  appoint-
ment was  not  in  writing;,  as  required  by  the  Act  of  1839 lb.
