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Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent..

Break :: Break (v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.

Gazette :: Gazette (v. t.) To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy..

Dividend :: Dividend (n.) A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate..

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

Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.

Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.

Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors..

Examine :: Examine (v. t.) To interrogate as in a judicial proceeding; to try or test by question; as, to examine a witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc..

Bankruptcy :: Bankruptcy (n.) The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.

Assignee :: Assignee (v.) In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors..

Messenger :: Messenger (n.) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge og the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent..

Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (n.) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities..

Bankrupted :: Bankrupted (imp. & p. p.) of Bankrup.

Cessionary :: Cessionary (a.) Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt..

Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury..

Discovery :: Discovery (n.) A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets..

Bankrupting :: Bankrupting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bankrup.

Bankruptcy :: Bankruptcy (n.) Complete loss; -- followed by of.

Whitewash :: Whitewash (v. t.) To make white; to give a fair external appearance to; to clear from imputations or disgrace; hence, to clear (a bankrupt) from obligation to pay debts..

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