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Bankrupts' Court ... The public are admitted to the rooms of the several commissioners who hold their sittings here, and are allowed to be present at the examinations.

Mogg's New Picture of London and Visitor's Guide to it Sights, 1844

The Bankrupt's Court, in Basinghall Street, is a detached department of the Court of Chancery, the business of which was formerly conducted in Guildhall. The present court, a large quadrangular building, consists of fourteen rooms, connected by commodious galleries; it is entirely devoted to matters of bankruptcy, and has an attached office for the registry of all business relating thereto.

Mogg's New Picture of London and Visitor's Guide to it Sights, 1844

BANKRUPTCY (COURT OF), BASINGHALL STREET. A spacious building (occupying the site of Bakewell Hall), erected in 1820, from the designs of William Fowler, Esq., the architect of Covent Garden Market, Hungerford Market, and of other public edifices in London. The business of the court is managed by two judges, and five commissioners. Number of Bankrupts in 1845- 1028; in 1846- 1326. The bankrupt is a trader, the insolvent not necessarily so. The bankrupt, when discharged, is discharged not only as to his person, but as to future acquired property; while the insolvent is discharged only as to his person, and not as to future acquired property.

Peter Cunningham, Hand-Book of London, 1850

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Bankruptcy Court, Lincoln’s-inn-fields (see LAW COURTS.) NEAREST Rallway Station, Temple; Omnibus Routes, Chancery -lane, Holborn, and Strand; Cab Rank, Searle-street. 

Charles Dickens (Jr.), Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1879