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Trustee :: Trustee (v. t.) To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor..

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

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

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..

Extent :: Extent (n.) A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment..

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..

Discuss :: Discuss (v. t.) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety..

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

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..

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..

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

Debitor :: Debitor (n.) A debtor.

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..

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

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..

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

Alsatian :: Alsatian (n.) An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London..

Delegation :: Delegation (n.) A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him..

Assets :: Assets (n. pl.) Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts..

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

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