Definition of creditor

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Creditor (n.) One who credits, believes, or trusts..

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Subrotund :: Subrogation (n.) The substitution of one person in the place of another as a creditor, the new creditor succeeding to the rights of the former; the mode by which a third person who pays a creditor succeeds to his rights against the debtor..
Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors..
Secure :: Secure (v. t.) To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage..
Assign :: Assign (v. t.) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors..
Assignee :: Assignee (v.) In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors..
Bilk :: Bilk (n.) A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person..
Extent :: Extent (n.) A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.
Apprizer :: Apprizer (n.) A creditor for whom an appraisal is made.
Assignment :: Assignment (n.) The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors..
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
Joint :: "Joint (a.) United, joined, or sharing with another or with others; not solitary in interest or action; holding in common with an associate, or with associates; acting together; as, joint heir; joint creditor; joint debtor, etc..
Cession :: Cession (n.) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.
Garnishee :: Garnishee (n.) One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money..
Hypotheca :: Hypotheca (n.) An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt.
Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors..
Bill :: Bill (n.) An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill..
Bilk :: Bilk (v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor..
Debtee :: Debtee (n.) One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor.
Dividend :: Dividend (n.) A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate..
Extension :: Extension (v. t.) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt..
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