...conceded the point. A provision was added to the treaty stipulating that "Creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the Recovery of the full Value in Sterling Money of all bona fide Debts" incurred prior to the war.95 Adams took an active role in seeking...

...agreed by the 4th article of the treaty of peace with Great Britain, that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value, in sterling money, of all bona tide debts heretofore contracted ; * " Be it therefore enacted by the General...

...but, as he liked also to point out, the same treaty stipulated that creditors on either side "shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling of all bonafide debts." "I flatter myself, however, sir," Carmarthen told Adams, "that whenever...

...States; it had no authority to implement article 4 of the treaty, which provided that creditors should "meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted."" These provisions left much room for...

...United States, signed at Paris, September 3, 1783: "It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value, in sterling money, of all bonafide debts heretofore contracted" (Treaties and Conventions, 377). 16. Richard...

...concluding the Revolution.10 The treaty provided, ti]t is agreed that Creditors on cither Side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full Value in Sterling Money of all bona fide Debts heretofore con* tracted."11 The state governments' failure to...

...York and John Adams of Massachusetts. Thus it contained language that "Creditors on either Side shall meet with no lawful Impediment to the Recovery of the full value in Sterling Money of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted." If enforced, this would cancel all the...

...Article IV of the peace treaty was as clear as a bell: "It is agreed that Creditors on either side, shall meet with no lawful Impediment to the Recovery of the full value in Sterling Money of all bona fide Debts heretofore contracted."41 Yet debtors and courts, especially...

...complained about American breaches of article four of the treaty, which provided that creditors would meet with "no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money otbonafide debts." The Minister opined that it would be "the height of folly" to suppose...

...London received three concessions in return. Article IV declared that "creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value . . . of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted." In other words, British financiers would be able...