The difference is between what is called a liquidated and an unliquidated claim.
But an unliquidated or a disputed claim--a claim subject to a real bona fide dispute, not merely a dispute trumped up for the purpose of disputing a good claim--may be discharged by any payment on which the parties agree.
On the other hand, if the debt was an unliquidated one, or there was an honest dispute in regard to the amount due, the creditor's claim is fully satisfied.
These several amounts of "liquidated" andunliquidated claims assumed by the United States, it is believed, may be paid as they fall due out of the accruing revenue, without the issue of stock or the creation of any additional public debt.
This left 141 billion dollars in unobligated authorizations and unliquidated obligations.
In certain appropriations, such as those for long-cycle procurement, considerable carry-over of unliquidated obligations into future years is to be expected and is necessary.
For example, several billion dollars of these unliquidated obligations represent unsettled inter- and intra-departmental agency accounts for war procurement.
I had too large an unliquidated interest at New Sestros, and while it remained so, I was not entitled to demand from my employer a final settlement for my years of labor.
Don Pedro's departure was a sore disappointment, because it left my accounts unliquidated and my release from the trade dependent on circumstances.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unliquidated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
