Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Ideas

    Debt

    idea · 4 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages

    debt · debts · non-payment of debt

    in the texts

    BirdsClassical · Greek

    The shared condition of indebtedness attributed to Epops in his former human life and implicitly to the two Athenians.

    Because you formerly were a man, like we are, formerly you had debts, as we have, formerly you did not want to pay them, like ourselves;
    birds

    The Genius of the Common Law20th Century · English

    An older, formally rigid writ for recovering a sum owed, whose territory was eventually absorbed into Assumpsit through legal fiction.

    Now in fact there was nothing to be done in that way with Debt or Covenant, or even with Account, which at first sight might look more tractable.
    v rescue and ransom
    By fiction, the fiction of conclusively presuming that a man had promised to pay what he owed, Assumpsit annexed the territory which formalism would have reserved for Debt.
    v rescue and ransom

    The Law of Torts19th Century · English

    An old form of action for recovery of a certain sum, closely related to detinue and displaced in practice by assumpsit.

    Because of the wager of law assumpsit supplanted debt;
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    (a) In one class we have writs beginning with Praecipe quod reddat—faciat—permittat.
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    Opinion was swayed to the other side by the close relation between detinue and debt, a relation so close as to be almost that of identity, especially when debt was brought, not in the debet and detinet, but in the detinet only.
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    NāradasmṛtiAncient · Sanskrit

    Financial obligation owed by one party to another; the first and most extensively treated of the eighteen topics of litigation, covering succession, liability, interest, evidence, and sureties.

    Non-payment of Debt
    chapter 1
    for he who takes the inheritance, takes the debt.
    chapter 1
    An exception is made for the wives of washermen, hunters, cowherds, and vintners.
    chapter 1