 That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another or to perform for his benefit ; that of which payment is liable to be exacted ; due; obligation; liability.  Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of ... - Σελίδα 587των Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, John Worth Kern, Francis Marion Dice, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1875Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Noah Webster - 1834 - 1052 σελίδες
...particularly to the fragments ofrockjt. DEBT, (deO *. [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... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1844 - 1142 σελίδες
...Fragments; rubbish; rains; applied particularly to the fragments of rocks. DEBT, (det) n. [L. dMtum.\ I. That which is due from one person to another, whether...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 ! suffer — 3. In /aw, an action... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - 1891 - 672 σελίδες
...creditor as a security for the payment of the debt." Jarvis v. Woodruff, 22 Conn., 548. What is a debt? " That which is due from one person to another, whether...that which one person is bound to pay to another or to perform for his benefit ; that of which payment is liable to be exacted ; due ; obligation ; liability."... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1857 - 1310 σελίδες
...sides of a mountain, and piled up below. — Brandt. DEBT (det), n. [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... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1866 - 716 σελίδες
...contract express or implied. (Matter of Denny, 2 Hill, 220.) In its more general sense it is defined to be that which is due from one person to another, whether...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... | |
 | Charles Daniel Drake - 1866 - 714 σελίδες
...that which is owed to him ; which ought at some time to be delivered or paid to him." By \Vtlater : "That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services." By Worcester: "That which one person owes to another; due; obligation." B'1 Tomlin: "Debt, in common... | |
 | 1862 - 900 σελίδες
...fFr.j Fragments ; rubbish ; гмм ; applied particularly to the fragments of rocks. Dor, del, s. (AN) That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services. That which any one is obliged to do or to suffer ; hence death is called the Ш of nature. — In Scripture, sin... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1867 - 634 σελίδες
...contract to deliver. (See Webster's Dictionary : Debt, nv Pay ; " DEBT, n. L. debtitum, contracted. 1. That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods or services. PAY, v. F. payer. 1. To discharge a debt ; to deliver to a creditor the value of the debt either in... | |
 | English language - 1871 - 1024 σελίδες
...; — rubbùh ; remains : ruina. Mt (drt) e, [F. dette, from L. deberé, to owe.] Tiling owed ;— that which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; obligation; liaЬШгу ; — a fault ; a crime ; a trespass. ïïnhtui. (det'çr) я, [L. debitor,... | |
 | 1872 - 406 σελίδες
...; remains ; ruins wreck. Debt, (det) n. [F. dette, L. debitum from debere, to owe.] Thing owed — that which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services ; obligation ; liability. Debut, (da-boo') n. [F., properly first cast or throw at play, from but,... | |
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