Art. 59 BV; Art. 5 Schaffhausen Cantonal Constitution; insolvency imprisonment and requirement of culpable insolvency. Detention threatened under the Schaffhausen debt-enforcement legislation is not, as such, debt imprisonment within the meaning of Art. 59 BV, but penal custody. It is nonetheless unconstitutional if the competent court does not establish, in the original judgment, that the insolvency is self-inflicted as required by cantonal constitutional law. Subsequent evidentiary clarifications cannot retroactively cure the omission, since the constitutionally required finding must precede the imposition of the custodial penalty (cf. consid. 1-2).
des Bezirksgerichtes Schaffhausen vom 30. November 1878, als im Widerspruch mit Art. 5 der Verfassung des Kantons Schaff hausen aufgehoben.