To resort to with expectation of receiving something; to expect to receive from; as, the creditor may look to surety for payment.
Note: A in London is creditor to B in New York, and C in London owes D in New York a like sum.
A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.
In the English exchequer were tallies of loans, one part being kept in the exchequer, the other being given to the creditor in lieu of an obligation for money lent to government.
Law) Defn: One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money.
Judgment debt (Law), a debt secured to the creditorby a judge's order.
Law) Defn: The act or contract by which property is hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his debtor, in virtue of which he may cause it to be sold and the price appropriated in payment of his debt.
That currency, or money, which the law authorizes a debtor to tender and requires a creditor to receive.
Judgment summons (Law), a proceeding by a judgment creditor against a judgment debtor upon an unsatisfied judgment.
Law) Defn: An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt.
The truth is that more care must be taken in the choice of a creditor for a benefit than for money; for the latter must have back only as much as I received, but the former must have more paid to him.
There is no such thing in England, or in any bankrupt system in the world; and cannot be, without reversing all the rules of right, and subjecting the creditorto the mercy of his debtor.
The ridiculous proviso of willingness to receive them on the part of the publiccreditor is an insult to him; for there is no choice--it is that or nothing.
The disbursing officer does not offer hard money with one hand, and paper with the other, and tell the creditor to take his choice.
The government creditor was suffering; the constitution was bleeding; the character of the country was sinking into disgrace; and it was the duty of Congress to apply a remedy to so many disasters.
The great creditor in the United States is the government.
It took away from the State courts the trials between debtor and creditorin the same State--a thing which under the constitution can only be done between citizens of different States.
Such procedure on the part of the creditor was allowed by ancient law.
And there the poor man must lie, in a private dungeon, amidst filth and darkness, his creditor his jailor, no comforts nor supplies but what are furnished him by friends without, no hope of deliverance till death comes to his release.
After so great a mercy shown to himself, the creditor cannot show the smallest mercy to his fellow-servant.
That the cruel severity of the servile creditor should touch the hearts of his fellow-servants with sorrow is no matter of wonder.
In addition, the creditor must give a bond for the costs of the suit, and for any damages sustained by the defendant.
Unless some creditor objects and specifies his ground of objection, the petition will be granted.
Suppose some one had endorsed the maker's check, then the creditor would probably sue on that in order to hold both parties.
Does a debtor who turns over a note to his creditor in payment, thereby cancel the debt?
The reexamination may be had on the application of the trustee or of any creditor by the referee, witnesses may be called to give evidence, and the referee may expunge or reduce the claim or adhere to the original allowance.
If proceedings are begun by the trustee to set aside a preferential transfer to a creditor who puts in a defense, he cannot thereafter surrender his preference and prove his claim.
Suppose that some creditor of the grantor, not knowing of the sale, should attach the land as the property of the grantor to secure a debt due to him, could he hold it as against the purchaser?
An assignment to one who has an insurable interest as relative, creditor and the like, is always valid.
Only a creditor who owns a demand or provable claim can vote at creditors' meetings.
To obviate the wager feature, the amount of insurance effected for a creditor on the life of his debtor ought to be limited to the amount of the debt with interest and premiums during the expectancy of the life insured.
Consequently if it is not paid, the creditor can sue to recover on the check, or for the original goods as he might elect.
If he does not, of course the creditor can still sue the debtor; but if he turned the note over in actual payment, then his right to sue his debtor is gone.
A creditor asks for justice when he appeals to a tribunal against his debtor; and how is that justice awarded?
In the first place, then, you can make me a creditorto the amount of thirty thousand pounds, and two or three of my friends creditors to an equal amount in the aggregate.
I became answerable for him--and the creditor is now pressing me for the payment of the debt.
You shall then give me the necessary securities to enable me to prove as your creditor for the amount agreed upon.
Mr. Greenwood observed that the accounts were highly satisfactory, and would doubtless please every creditor present.
You slipped away so very quickly that I thought you'd met some creditor or other.
At the time it struck me that this action was strange, for I felt sure he had seen somebody he did not wish to meet, and reflected that perhaps it was some unwelcome creditor or other.
His soldiers are my creatures--his comrades my brothers--his creditor myself!
Senator," said Montreal, "my life can but little profit you; men will say that you destroyed your creditor in order to cancel your debt.
Distraint was not unknown, but it was the last expedient which the creditor was entitled to adopt after all other means had failed.
If he were a free man, the creditor had to restore him to his original master at the termination of three years, and the same rule applied if a wife or child of the debtor were the pledge or surety.
If a debtor was insolvent, he could hand over a servant to his creditor to work off the debt which was due.
It enabled the creditor to secure his property, if he found the debtor was disposed to be fraudulent: he could apply for a commission of bankruptcy, and make the debtor account for the property in his possession.
The only effect that could have been contemplated, was, that the creditor States might rely that, on a settlement, Congress would assume their balances.
In his opinion it was but right, if the debtor States did not dispute the validity of the debts due to the creditor States, that they should agree to expunge the claims against the debtor States.
Generally, where the war existed, the States became creditor States.
The man who declined to discharge his debt because his creditor is too poor to enforce it, is a blackguard.
Previous to 1914 we were the creditor and America the debtor nation.
Muda Hassim, finding that his creditor was inflexible, and being unable or unwilling to pay for the goods which he had fraudulently obtained, offered in payment of all debts to surrender the government.
By this time the patience of the creditor was exhausted.
Perhaps you will allow me to become your creditorfor a while.
He must pay whatever the cold-eyed creditor demanded.
A prisoner is an impatient patient, lingering under the rough hands of a cruel physician: his creditor having cast his water knows his disease, and hath power to cure him, but takes more pleasure to kill him.
He is an inferior creditor of some ten shillings downwards, contracted for horse-hire, or perchance for drink, too weak to be put in suit, and he arrests your modesty.
He keeps all their accounts for them, and sums them up, not by debtor, but creditor alone--a more compendious way.
He painted pathetically the temper into which the legislature had been wrought; the disgust of those who were called the creditor States; the danger of the secession of their members, and the separation of the States.
But the creditorwas watchful, and for the technical "escape" sued the sureties.
As those payments were to be made in specie, and as specie had left circulation, it was proper that the United States as a creditor should exhibit the same leniency which was wise and necessary on the part of other creditors.
There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.
This woman had not only lost her husband, but a creditor was going to take her boys and sell them into slavery.
While imprisonment for debt is sanctioned, the threats of the creditor are a source of perpetual distress to the dependent, friendless debtor, holding his liberty by sufferance alone.
This released the purchasers from debt, and the government from the inconvenient relation of creditor to its own citizens.
The ultimate criterion of justice is not to be found in any attempt to form a debtor and creditor account between the government and the individual; but in the civilising influence of the system, taken as a whole.
A hardhearted creditor was turning him out of his farm.
Christina pretended not to know that the creditor was Nicholas himself, but marvelled that such wicked men could be.
You must be either a creditor or that tyrant of a picket officer going his rounds.
If you are a creditor come back six months after peace is declared, because now I won't pay you a soldo even if I had one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "creditor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
