Insolvent+debtor
21insolvency — The insufficiency of the entire property and assets of an individual to pay his debts. 29 Am J Rev ed Insolv § 2. In a practical commercial sense, the inability of a person to pay his debts as they become due in the ordinary course of his… …
22preference — The paying or securing to one or more of his creditors, by an insolvent debtor, the whole or a part of their claim, to the exclusion or detriment of the rest. The act of an insolvent debtor who, in distributing his property or in assigning it for …
23contribution — con·tri·bu·tion n 1: payment of a share of an amount for which one is liable: as a: shared payment of a judgment by joint tortfeasors esp. according to proportional fault compare apportion a b: pro rata apportionment of loss among all the… …
24Voluntary Bankruptcy — A type of bankruptcy where an insolvent debtor brings the petition to a court to declare bankruptcy because he or she (in the case of an individual) or it (in the case of a business entity) is unable to pay off debts. The bankruptcy is intended… …
25Unsecured creditor — An unsecured creditor is a creditor which is not a preferential creditor and which does not have the benefit of any security interests in the assets of the debtor.In the event of the bankruptcy of the debtor, the unsecured creditors usually… …
26Security interest — A security interest is a property interest created by agreement or by operation of law over assets to secure the performance of an obligation, usually the payment of a debt.[1] It gives the beneficiary of the security interest certain… …
27creditor — A person to whom a debt is owing by another person who is the debtor. Rooney v. Inheritance Tax Commission of Kansas, 143 Kan. 143, 53 P.2d 500, 501. One who has a right to require the fulfillment of an obligation or contract. Murphy v. Jos.… …
28creditor — A person to whom a debt is owing by another person who is the debtor. Rooney v. Inheritance Tax Commission of Kansas, 143 Kan. 143, 53 P.2d 500, 501. One who has a right to require the fulfillment of an obligation or contract. Murphy v. Jos.… …
29preferential transfer — USA preference, Also known as a preferential transfer. A transfer made by an insolvent debtor to a creditor in payment of a preexisting debt within 90 days before the date when the bankruptcy petition is filed (or if the creditor is an insider,… …
30Nonpayment — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Nonpayment >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 nonpayment nonpayment Sgm: N 1 default default defalcation Sgm: N 1 protest protest repudiation Sgm: N 1 application of the sponge| application of the sponge| =>! Sgm …
