DYVOUR'S HABIT, in Scots law, a party-coloured habit which fraudulent bankrupts, or bankrupts who have been dealers in illicit trades, are directed to wear, as a mark of ignominy, upon their being liberated from prison on a cessio bonorum. See SCOTS LAW, title 32.
DYVOUR'S HABIT
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