Unsecured Claim - Law Dictionary Search Results
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unsecured claim A claim or debt for which a creditor holds no special assurance of payment, such as a mortgage or lien; a debt for which credit was extended based solely upon the creditor's assessment of the debtor's future ability to pay. Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
priority claim
priority claim An unsecured claim that is entitled to be paid ahead of other unsecured claims that are not entitled to priority status. Priority refers to the order in which these unsecured claims are to be paid.proof of claim A written statement and verifying documentation filed by a creditor that describes the reason the debtor owes the creditor money. (There is an official form for this purpose.) Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
Administrative convenience
Administrative convenience, in relation to bankruptcy means a provision permitting a bankruptcy plan to have a separate classification for small, unsecured claims, to the extent that the separate classification will assist in a more efficient disposition of to estate, as by paying or eliminating the small claims earlier than other claims. 11 (USCA) & 1122(b)....
no-asset case
no-asset case A chapter 7 case where there are no assets available to satisfy any portion of the creditors' unsecured claims. Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
Winding-up
Winding-up, the process by which an insolvent estate is distributed, as far as it will go, amongst the persons having claims upon it. The term is most frequently applied to the winding-up of joint-stock companies.The property of a company is collected and distributed firstly in discharge of its liabilities, and secondly, among its members according to their respective rights with a view to its dissolution. If the assets are not sufficient to meet the liabilities, a company is usually wound up by the Court. In other cases the winding-up is usually voluntary and conducted by the company itself either with or without the supervision of the Court. The provisions of the (English) Companies Act, 1929, govern a winding-up in any of these three modes (s. 156). In any winding-up the members who may be called upon to contribute are ascertained and their liability determined under ss. 157-162; see CONTRIBUTORIES. Debts and claims of all kinds require to be proved and if not of certain value to be...
subrogate
subrogate -gat·ed -gat·ing [Latin subrogatus, past participle of subrogare surrogare to elect as a substitute, from sub- under + rogare to request] : to put in the place of another by the doctrine of subrogation : substitute (as a second creditor) for another with regard to a legal right or claim [s the trustee to the priority and avoidance rights of certain unsecured creditors "J. J. White and R. S. Summers"] [the surety who pays the principal obligation is subrogated…to the rights of the creditor "Louisiana Civil Code"] ...
Financial asset
Financial asset, means debt or receivables and includes--(i) a claim to any debt or receivables or part thereof, whether secured or unsecured; or(ii) any debt or receivables secured by, mortgage of, or charge on, immovable property; or(iii) a mortgage, charge, hypothecation or pledge of movable property; or(iv) any right or interest in the security, whether full or part underlying such debt or receivables; or(v) any beneficial interest in property, whether movable or immovable, or in such debt, receivables, whether such interest is existing, future, accruing, conditional or contingent; or(vi) any financial assistance. [Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforce-ment of Security Interest Act, 2002 (54 of 2002), s. 2(1)(l)]...
unsecured
unsecured : not secured: as a : not guaranteed or protected as to payment, performance, or satisfaction by a security interest or by property given or pledged as security [ debt] [an claim] b : characterized by a lack of security or of a security interest [ status] ...
Debt
Debt [fr. debitum, Lat.], a sum of money due from one person to another. An action of debt lay where a person claimed the recovery of a liquidated or certain sum of money affirmed to be due to him; and it was generally founded on some contract alleged to have taken place between the parties, or on some matter of fact from which the law would imply a contract between them. This was debt in the debet, which was the principal and only common form. There is another species mentioned in the books, called debt in the detinet, which lay for the specific recovery of goods, under a contract to deliver them. An action of debt as a technical term is now obsolete. See PLEADINGS. The order of the payment of debts and expenses out of legal assets in an ordinary administration action in the Chancery Division of the High Court is as follows:-1. Funeral expenses, which in the case of an insolvent estate must be strictly reasonable and necessary only, the executor or administrator being personally liabl...
Property
Property, an actionable claim against the tenants is undoubtedly a species of property which is assignable, State of Bihar v. Kameshwar Singh, AIR 1952 SC 252.Comprises every form of tangible property, even intangible, including debts and chooses in action such as unpaid accumulation of wages, pension, cash grants, and constitutionally protected privy purse, See M.M. Pathak v. Union of India, AIR 1978 SC 802.Decree is to be treated as property, Associated Hotels of India v. Jodha Mal Kuthiala, AIR 1950 Punj 201.Every movable property is included in the ordinary connotation of the word 'property', Chunni Lal v. State, AIR 1968 Raj 70.In commercial law this may carry its ordinary meaning of the subject-matter of ownership. But elsewhere, as in the sale of goods it may be used as a synonym for ownership and lesser rights in goods, Dictionary of Commercial Law by A.H. Hudson, (1983, Edn.).In Entry 42, List III (Constitution of India) includes the power to legislate for acquisition of an un...
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