Excerpt from The Rules of Practice in the Civil Courts of Record of the State of Texas, Vol. 2 That a merchant, the defendant in attachment, had executed a mortgage upon his goods, notes and accounts to secure a creditor, with stipulation that the mortgagee should take possession of the property and should dispose Of it in a regular course of mercantile sales at customary prices, the defendant being indebted to others and to extent of his assets, was ground for attach ment, and supported the affidavit that the defendant had disposed of his prop erty in part with intent to defraud his creditors. Gallagher v. Goldfrank, 75 't. 562 (12 S. W. Rep. That debtors threatened a conversion of their ao counts. Forming the greater part of their assets, into promissory notes pre sumably or probably negotiable, would indicate an intention to transfer the notes to third parties, and would be an effectual method of putting the same beyond the reach of creditors. Orr Lindsay Shoe co. V. Harris, 82 T. 273 (18 's. W. Rep. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.