• A debtor or debitor is a legal entity (legal person) that owes a debt to another entity. The entity may be an individual, a firm, a government, a company...
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    jurisdictions, bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor. Bankrupt is not the only legal status that an insolvent person may have...
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    A debtors' prison is a prison for people who are unable to pay debt. Until the mid-19th century, debtors' prisons (usually similar in form to locked workhouses)...
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  • number of debtors days. Debtor days can also be referred to as debtor collection period. Another common ratio is the creditors days ratio. Debtor days =...
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  • A debtor in possession or DIP in United States bankruptcy law is a person or corporation who has filed a bankruptcy petition, but remains in possession...
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  • Debtor and Creditor can refer to: Debtor Creditor Debt This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Debtor and Creditor. If an internal...
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    In English and American law, a judgment debtor is a person against whom a judgment ordering him to pay a sum of money has been obtained and remains unsatisfied...
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  • The Debtors is an American comedy film starring Michael Caine, Randy Quaid, Udo Kier, Catherine McCormack, Scott Atkinson, and Scott Wilson and directed...
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  • company. In Chapter 11, in most instances the debtor remains in control of its business operations as a debtor in possession, and is subject to the oversight...
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  • Chapter 11 and Chapter 13, which govern the process of reorganization of a debtor. Chapter 7 bankruptcy is the most common form of bankruptcy in the US. When...
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  • Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink is a book written by Harvard economic historian Louis Hyman and published by Princeton University Press...
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  • Debtor finance is a process to fund a business using its accounts receivable ledger as collateral. Generally, companies that have low working capital reserves...
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  • Debtor-in-possession financing or DIP financing is a special form of financing provided for companies in financial distress, typically during restructuring...
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  • period. Debtor collection period = ⁠Average debtors/ Credit sales⁠ × number of days365 (average debtors = debtors at the beginning of the year + debtors at...
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    pursuing payments of money or other agreed-upon value owed to a creditor. The debtors may be individuals or businesses. An organization that specializes in debt...
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    countries aiming to provide a sustainable way to tackle debt problems in debtor countries. Its creation, which is the first informal meeting, dates back...
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  • assets of the debtor. In the event of the bankruptcy of the debtor, the secured creditor can enforce security against the assets of the debtor and avoid competing...
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  • prospective debtor (an individual, a business, company or a government). It is the practice of predicting or forecasting the ability of a supposed debtor to pay...
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  • the debtor has sufficient assets to meet the amount of the judgment debt. If the debtor cannot pay the debt and has no executable assets, the debtor is...
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    A Debtor to the Law is a 1919 American silent Western film starring Henry Starr, a convicted bank robber, as himself. The film is about Starr's attempts...
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  • action that arises in debtor/creditor relations, typically brought by creditors or by bankruptcy trustees against insolvent debtors, but in some jurisdictions...
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    often applied to determine how bankruptcy affects the property rights of debtors. For example, laws governing the validity of liens or rules protecting...
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  • In legal terms, however, the test for insolvency is whether or not the debtor's liabilities, fairly estimated, exceed his assets, fairly valued. Inability...
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  • 4.5 5.5 6.7 Net status debtor debtor debtor debtor debtor debtor debtor debtor debtor creditor creditor creditor creditor debtor debtor debtor debtor...
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    4.5 5.5 6.7 Net status debtor debtor debtor debtor debtor debtor debtor debtor debtor creditor creditor creditor creditor debtor debtor debtor debtor...
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    the debtor's "current monthly income" and the median income for the debtor's state. If the debtor's income exceeds the median income, then the debtor must...
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  • the debtor's liability to pay certain types of debts they owe before filing the bankruptcy case. Once a bankruptcy discharge is granted, the debtor is...
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  • Debtors Anonymous (DA) is a twelve-step program for people who want to stop incurring unsecured debt. Collectively they attend more than 500 weekly meetings...
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  • net-debtor nation for the first time since 1914, when its nominal debt had reached $2 billion. By 1990, the U.S. was the world's largest debtor By end-2020...
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  • crimes of debtor's dishonesty (velallisen epärehellisyys) and aggravated debtor's dishonesty (törkeä velallisen epärehellisyys) are defined. A debtor is dishonest...
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