| John Boag - English language - 1848 - 816 pages
...rocks. DEBT, de4, [L. dtbitum,] n. That which is due from oue person to another, whether money, good?, or services; that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another. That which any one ii obliged to do or to suffer. In law, nn action to recover a debt. In Scripture,... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - Prayer - 1848 - 414 pages
...as generally used, is a commercial term, denoting that which is due from one person to another ; or, that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another, according to contract, for something which he has had. As no such transaction as this exists between... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - Prayer - 1851 - 396 pages
...as generally used, is a commercial term, denoting that which is due from one person to another ; or, that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another, according to contract, for something which he has had. As no such transaction as this exists between... | |
| Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 672 pages
...creditor as a security for the payment of the debt." Jarvis v. Woodruff, 22 Conn., 548. What is a debt? " That which is due from one person to another, whether...or services ; that which one person is bound to pay to another or to perform for his benefit ; that of which payment is liable to be exacted ; due ; obligation... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - Prayer - 1856 - 394 pages
...as generally used, is a commercial term, denoting that which is due from one person to another ; or, that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another, according to contract, for something which he has had. As no such transaction as this exists between... | |
| Noah Webster - English language - 1857 - 1310 pages
...sides of a mountain, and piled up below. ā Brandt. DEBT (det), n. [L. debitum.] I. That which iĀ« due from one person to another, whether money, goods,...another. 2. That which any one is obliged to do or to Buffer.ā 3. In lav, an action to recover a debt ā 4. In Scripture, sin ; trespass ; guilt ; crime... | |
| John Ogilvie - 1865 - 846 pages
...have or bold, ] That trh ich ishad or held of another; that which is due from one person to another; that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another; due; obligation; liability; that which any one in obli^fl to do or to suffer; sin; trespass; guilt... | |
| Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 716 pages
...contract express or implied. (Matter of Denny, 2 Hill, 220.) In its more general sense it is defined to be that which is due from one person to another, whether...one person is bound to pay or perform to another. (Newell v. People, 3 Seld. 124.) Under these statutes it seems to import any obligation by contract,... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 626 pages
...class of cases can be determined in which imprisonment for debt has been abolished. The word includes that which is due from one person to another, whether...or services ; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; that of which payment is liable to be exacted ; due, obligation,... | |
| Charles Daniel Drake - Attachment and garnishment - 1866 - 714 pages
...that which is owed to him ; which ought at some time to be delivered or paid to him." By \Vtlater : "That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services." By Worcester: "That which one person owes to another; due; obligation." B'1 Tomlin: "Debt, in common... | |
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