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Assignment :: Assignment (n.) The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors..

Apprizer :: Apprizer (n.) A creditor for whom an appraisal is made.

Peon :: Peon (n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt..

Subrotund :: Subrogation (n.) The substitution of one person in the place of another as a creditor, the new creditor succeeding to the rights of the former; the mode by which a third person who pays a creditor succeeds to his rights against the debtor..

Readjuster :: Readjuster (n.) One who, or that which, readjusts; in some of the States of the United States, one who advocates a refunding, and sometimes a partial repudiation, of the State debt without the consent of the State's creditors..

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

Creditor :: Creditor (n.) One who credits, believes, or trusts..

Extension :: Extension (v. t.) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt..

Secure :: Secure (v. t.) To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage..

Assign :: Assign (v. t.) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors..

Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors..

Debtee :: Debtee (n.) One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor.

Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.

Debtor :: Debtor (n.) One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor.

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors..

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..

Delegation :: Delegation (n.) A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him..

Hypotheca :: Hypotheca (n.) An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt.

Bilk :: Bilk (v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor..

Garnishee :: Garnishee (n.) One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money..

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