The leverage a firm has for repaying debts. It shows capital from trade creditors and lenders. AKA leverage ratio and gearing ratio.

When a firm trades common stock thats new for bonds they already issued. Refer to debt for export swap .

Having debt that is more than can be absorbed.

How much a company owes compared to how much they can pay. A high ratio suggest high debt.

The income pledged for paying off debt. It involves expenses and income.

The percent of assets that are financed by debt. It is highly leveraged if the ratio is high.

A person to whom a debt Is due; a creditor. 3 Bl. Comm. 18; Plowd. 543. Not used.

One who owes a debt; he who may be compelled to pay a claim or demand.

the term given to people or a company that occupies its premises and to conduct business during proceedings of bankruptcy.

A firm filing for BANKRUPTCY protection and REORGANIZATION that is permitted to act as its own TRUSTEE. The DIP typically attempts to secure DIP FINANCING in order to continue its […]

Funding arranged for a company in BANKRUPTCY that is filing a REORGANIZATION plan; the bank group providing DIP financing generally assumes some level of control and/or COLLATERAL in order to […]

The statute 32 & 33 Vict. c. 62, abolishing imprisonment for debt in England, and for the punishment of fraudulent debtors. 2 Steph. Comm. 159-164. Not to be confounded with […]

In English law . A summons issuing from a court having jurisdiction in bankruptcy. upon the creditor proving a liquidated debt of not less than

1.fixing the problems in a software when it crashes, acts strangely, or is hacked. Refer to bug. 2. fixing existing errors or potential errors in a system to make is […]

The ten commandments given by God to Moses. The Jews called them the “Ten Words,” hence the name.

A deanery. Spelman. A company of ten persons. Calvin.

The office, jurisdiction , territory, or command of a dccanus, or dean. Spelman.

In ecclesiastical and old European law. An officer having supervision over ten; a dean. A term applied not only to ecclesiastical, but to civil and military, officers. Decanus monasticus; a […]

The act of beheading. A mode of capital punishment by cutting off the head.

When an ad loses its effectiveness over time.

n. Death; departure from life, not including civil death, (see DEATH.) In re Zeph’s Estate, 50 Ilun, 523, 3 N. Y. Supp. 400.

the term that applies to a person who has died.

When a bank account is owned by a now dead person. It is frozen while it awaits for instructions from the executor. Issues about heirs and creditors are considered at […]

A deceased person; one who has lately died. Etymologically the word denotes a person who is dying, but it has come to be used in law as signifying any defunct […]

A fraudulent and cheating misrepresentation , artifice, or device, used by one or more persons to deceive and trick another, who is ignorant of the true facts, to the prejudice […]