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Creditor :: Creditor (n.) One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to whom money is due; -- correlative to debtor..

Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors..

Debtor :: Debtor (n.) One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor.

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..

Apprizer :: Apprizer (n.) A creditor for whom an appraisal is made.

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..

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..

Assets :: Assets (n. pl.) Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend..

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

Cession :: Cession (n.) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.

Appropriation :: Appropriation (n.) The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter..

Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors..

Bilk :: Bilk (n.) A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person..

Defraud :: Defraud (v. t.) To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld..

Extension :: Extension (v. t.) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt..

Creditrix :: Creditrix (n.) A female creditor.

Peon :: Peon (n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt..

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors..

Pledge :: Pledge (n.) The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn..

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