"collection proceedings" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the legal process of pursuing debtors or delinquent accounts in order to collect payment. Example: "The company initiated collection proceedings against the delinquent account holders in order to recoup losses."
Lenders may even continue writing letters to the deceased and can start debt collection proceedings".
Gutenberg himself is usually credited with what is known as the 42-line Bible (1455; see photograph); the 36-line Bible; and a popular encyclopaedia called the Catholicon (1460); however, he lost control of his assets in collection proceedings brought against him by his business partner in 1455.
In a proposal aimed at unscrupulous debt collectors, the City Council is considering legislation that would require process servers to use global positioning systems to show that they have actually visited consumers' homes or workplaces to deliver notices of collection proceedings.
The two collections agencies and 35 lawyers and law firms named in the lawsuit, which lawyers for Mr. Cuomo's office filed on behalf of the state's chief administrative judge, Ann Pfau, all used one company, American Legal Process, of Lynbrook, N.Y., to notify consumers of debt collection proceedings.
There, they obtain civil debt collection judgments, and ask the court to declare the debtor in civil contempt for failure to pay or to appear in collection proceedings, resulting in the jailing of debtors until they pay the unpaid debt.
He also said that the defendants' threats of collection proceedings and adverse effects on users' credit ratings were empty, as the defendants had no way to personally identify computer users.
Cases would move more smoothly through the system while, for example, assuring fairer debt-collection proceedings, which are often dominated by lawyers for collection companies.
Saab must begin paying debts to two companies on Wednesday or face collections proceedings, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports.
American Legal is one of the nation's largest companies in the business of giving notice to debtors of collections proceedings.
In thousands of cases, a lawyer for Mr. Cuomo's office stated in a court filing, individual American Legal Process employees claimed to have delivered notices of collections proceedings to different people in different locations at the same time.
This has happened to thousands of people across New York — and potentially tens of thousands more across the country — because companies that were supposed to notify them of collections proceedings had failed to do so, the New York attorney general's office is charging.
