 | Noah Webster - 1834 - 1052 sider
...[L. debitum.] T. That which is due from one person tb another, whether money, goods, or services ; that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another. •& That which any one is obliged to do or to suffer. — 3. In /aw, an action to recover a debt.... | |
 | John Boag - 1848 - 816 sider
...de4, [L. dtbitum,] n. That which is due from oue person to another, whether money, good?, or services; that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another. That which any one ii obliged to do or to suffer. In law, nn action to recover a debt. In Scripture,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1848 - 414 sider
...as generally used, is a commercial term, denoting that which is due from one person to another ; or, that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another, according to contract, for something which he has had. As no such transaction as this exists between... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1851 - 396 sider
...as generally used, is a commercial term, denoting that which is due from one person to another ; or, that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another, according to contract, for something which he has had. As no such transaction as this exists between... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1856 - 394 sider
...as generally used, is a commercial term, denoting that which is due from one person to another ; or, that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another, according to contract, for something which he has had. As no such transaction as this exists between... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1857 - 1310 sider
...[L. debitum.] I. That which i« due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services ; that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another. 2. That which any one is obliged to do or to Buffer.— 3. In lav, an action to recover a debt —... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1866 - 716 sider
...it is defined to be that which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods or services ; that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another. (Newell v. People, 3 Seld. 124.) Under these statutes it seems to import any obligation by contract,... | |
 | 1877 - 520 sider
...What is a debt t " That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services ; that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another." Men generally, especially in well regulated communities, recognise such obligations ; they have no... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - 1879 - 1054 sider
...is defined to be that which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services ; that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another. Under the legal-tender statutes, it seems to import any obligation by contract, express or implied,... | |
 | 1907 - 1332 sider
...may be said to be that which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or sen-ices; that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another. But "debt," within a constitutional purview, has no such wide play in meaning. On the contrary, "debt,"... | |
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debt' Is used with a very wide Import. When so used In a general or popular sense, It may be said to be that which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another. 
