Forgive US our Debts... Found this and just thought it was interesting. It probably isn't relative to anything. " 4 See Twyne's Case, 76 Eng.Rep. 809 (K.B. 1601). Twyne involved one Pierce who was in debt to Twyne and to another creditor who had instituted suit against Pierce. Pierce secretly transferred ownership of his sheep to Twyne to satisfy the debt but retained possession and acted as if the sheep were still his own. Some of the sheep were sold to the other creditor who took them with no notice of the secret transfer to Twyne. The Twyne opinion warned: therefore, reader, when any gift shall be to you in satisfaction of a debt, by one who is indebted to others also; 1st, let it be made in a public manner, and before the neighbors, and not in private, for secrecy is a mark of fraud. Id. at 814. The secret transfer to Twyne was viewed as fraudulent and invalid against creditors and purchasers. A lender's possession of collateral was viewed, at this point in the development of commercial law, as the only method of providing notice to third party creditors. "