SQUALOR CARCERIS

squalor carceris (skway-lor kahr-s[schwa]r-is). [Law Latin] Scots law. The strictness of imprisonment. “This term means merely the strictness of imprisonment which a creditor is entitled to enforce, with the view of compelling the debtor to pay the debt, or disclose any funds which he may have concealed. It does not imply (as it did with […]