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Term :: Term (n.) A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation.

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..

Dun :: Dun (v. t. & i.) To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately..

Debit :: Debit (n.) A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; -- mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account..

Debtee :: Debtee (n.) One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor.

Extent :: Extent (n.) A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.

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

Debitor :: Debitor (n.) A debtor.

Compensation :: Compensation (n.) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.

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

Insolvent :: Insolvent (n.) One who is insolvent; as insolvent debtor; -- in England, before 1861, especially applied to persons not traders..

Hypotheca :: Hypotheca (n.) An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt.

Adjudication :: Adjudication (n.) The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt.

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..

Asylum :: Asylum (n.) A sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege..

Dun :: Dun (n.) An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun..

Fugitive :: Fugitive (a.) Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor..

Seize :: Seize (v. t.) To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods..

Hypothecation :: Hypothecation (n.) The act or contract by which property is hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his debtor, in virtue of which he may cause it to be sold and the price appropriated in payment of his debt. This is a right in the thing, or jus in re..

Abscond :: Abscond (v. i.) To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor..

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