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Caroline and her husband are a young couple who have borrowed money from Scrooge. When Caroline's husband tries to ask for a weeks delay in repayment he is told that Scrooge is dead. No one seems to know who the debt will belong to as in those times if there was not written undertaking such as a Will the debt would die with the lender. Therefore in this case Caroline's debt would die with Scrooge and they would be free of the old Miser

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