John Hasler wrote: [...] > you'd go to prison. In any case the original question was about going to > prison solely due to inability to pay a debt. That isn't going to happen
Simply put, in Germany it works this way: 1. The creditor privately sends a reminder about debt. (no response) 2. The creditor requests the court (the court doesn't prove validity of the claim at this stage) to send another reminder (gerichtliche Mahnbescheid). (no response) 3. The court issues Vollstreckungsbescheid (which is an executory title authorizing seizure). (no response/objection from debtor) 4. The creditor requests seizure and Gerichtsvollzieher is unsuccessful. (not enough to seize) 5. At this stage the debtor must either swear insolvency (recorded in public register "don't do business with me") or go to jail. regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
