§ MR. LOCKEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is or not the fact that the law of arrest on mesne process still exists in the Channel Islands, and that an Englishman going to reside in Jersey may, without any notice or action brought, be arrested for a debt incurred in England, and to a creditor resident in England, notwithstanding the abolition in England of the law of imprisonment for debt?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, he believed the Imprisonment for Debt Act was not intended to apply to the Channel Islands. Since the Question had been put on the Paper, he had taken steps to procure information on the Subject.