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* ''Ex parte Davis'', 111 S.W. 394, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/111_SW_394.pdf#page=2 395-96] (Tex. 1908) ("The claim of Mrs. Davis for support of . . . . She could not have maintained an action against her husband to enforce that duty, except in the manner in which it was done in the proceedings for divorce. The Constitution of this state does not prohibit the imprisonment of a man except for the collection of a debt, and the proceeding in this case, being for the enforcement of a duty, natural and legal, due from Davis to his wife and children, all of whom were subject to the jurisdiction of the court, does not come within the prohibition of the Constitution.")
* ''Ex parte Davis'', 111 S.W. 394, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/111_SW_394.pdf#page=2 395-96] (Tex. 1908) ("The claim of Mrs. Davis for support of . . . . She could not have maintained an action against her husband to enforce that duty, except in the manner in which it was done in the proceedings for divorce. The Constitution of this state does not prohibit the imprisonment of a man except for the collection of a debt, and the proceeding in this case, being for the enforcement of a duty, natural and legal, due from Davis to his wife and children, all of whom were subject to the jurisdiction of the court, does not come within the prohibition of the Constitution.")


* ''Dixon v. State'', 2 Tex. 482, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/2_Tex._482.pdf#page=2 483] (1847) ("It is not to be supposed, and it will scarcely be contended, that it ever entered into the minds of the framers of the Constitution, that they were to be understood as having any application to the administration of the criminal laws; or that they were to have the effect to prevent the punishment of crimes. It was well known to them that the abolition of imprisonment for debt in other States, where it had been effected, had been held to consist with the enactment of laws for the punishment by imprisonment of criminal frauds perpetrated to avoid the payment of debts.")
* ''Dixon v. State'', 2 Tex. 482, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/002_Tex_482.pdf#page=2 483] (1847) ("It is not to be supposed, and it will scarcely be contended, that it ever entered into the minds of the framers of the Constitution, that they were to be understood as having any application to the administration of the criminal laws; or that they were to have the effect to prevent the punishment of crimes. It was well known to them that the abolition of imprisonment for debt in other States, where it had been effected, had been held to consist with the enactment of laws for the punishment by imprisonment of criminal frauds perpetrated to avoid the payment of debts.")


|seo_title=Article I, Section 18 of the Texas Constitution ("Imprisonment for Debt")
|seo_title=Article I, Section 18 of the Texas Constitution ("Imprisonment for Debt")
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