ACT OF GRACE, Scotch law. The name by which the statute which provides forthe aliment of prisoners confined for civil debts, is usually known.
2. This statute provides that where a prisoner for debt declares uponoath, before the magistrate of the jurisdiction, that he has not wherewithto maintain himself, the magistrate may set him it liberty, if the creditor,in consequence of whose diligence he was imprisoned, does not aliment himwithin ten days after intimation for that purpose. 1695, c. 32; Ersk. Pr. L.Scot. 4, 3, 14. This is somewhat similar to a provision in the insolvent actof Pennsylvania.