Debt
idea · 4 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
debt · debts · non-payment of debt
in the texts
Birds
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;
The Genius of the Common Law
An older, formally rigid writ for recovering a sum owed, whose territory was eventually absorbed into Assumpsit through legal fiction.
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.
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.
The Law of Torts
An old form of action for recovery of a certain sum, closely related to detinue and displaced in practice by assumpsit.
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.
(a) In one class we have writs beginning with Praecipe quod reddat—faciat—permittat.
Because of the wager of law assumpsit supplanted debt;
Nāradasmṛti
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.
But a woman who has property and a son, and takes refuge with another man, that man must pay her former husband's debt, or else abandon her.
He who takes the wife of a man who died without property and without a son, must bear his debt;
What debt is to be paid and what is not, by whom, where, and how it is to be paid, and the rules of giving and taking—this is remembered as "Non-payment of Debt.