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Chirographum apud debitorem repertum pr'sumitur solutum

Chirographum apud debitorem repertum pr'sumitur solutum.-(A deed found with the debtor is presumed to be paid.)

Agreement

s. 2 (a)] Means an agreement (whether written or oral, or partly written and partly oral) between a debtor and creditor, and includes an agreement providing for forced labour, the existence of which is presumed under any

Chevisance

end of a business], an agreement or composition; an end or order set down between a creditor and debtor; an indirect gain in point of usury, etc.; also an unlawful bargain or contract, Jac. Law Dict.

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Anon

concealed under initials, and this has been also done in Bankruptcy cases, which have been often styled 'A Debtor, In re,' to the considerable confusion of references.

Recoverable

regained capable of being brought back to a former condition as from sickness misfortune etc obtainable from a debtor or possessor as the debt is recoverable goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable

Abandonment

sunk in the Thames, and therefore no freedom from responsibility. Also the surrender of his property by a debtor for the benefit of his creditors. The Civil Law permitted a master who was sued for his slave's

Abbreviate of Adjudication

of the debt. Adjudication is that diligence (execution) of the law by which the real estate of a debtor is adjudged to belong to his creditor in payment of a debt; and the abbreviate must be recorded

Abscond

country in order to escape arrest (see FLY FOR IT) for crime. By s. 6 of the (English) Debtors Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict., C. 62), in any action in the High Court in which before

Absolute-bar rule

Absolute-bar rule, means the principle that, when a creditor sells collateral without giving reasonable notice to the debtor, the creditor may not obtain a deficiency judgment for any amount of the debt that is not satisfied

Acton-burnel

Acton-burnel, the statute enacting that a debtor's property might be sold to pay his debts, 11 Edw. 1, A.D. 1283, so termed from the place

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