Sentence examples for debtor from from inspiring English sources

Moskovitz read aloud, "Sometimes the judge has to protect the debtor from himself".

The law bars a debtor from transferring funds in a way that protects one class of creditors over another.

It did not amount to a discharge of the debt unless the property ceded was sufficient for the purpose, but it secured the debtor from personal arrest.

This institution would need legal tools to bind all creditors to a deal agreed upon by a qualified majority (say, 75%) of them and to protect the debtor from legal challenges while that settlement was negotiated.

Since that time, relief of the honest but unfortunate debtor from his provable debts has become one of the main objectives of bankruptcy legislation in countries influenced by the English system.

Three principles emerge: to secure fair and equal distribution of available property among the creditors, to free the debtor from his debts, and to enquire into the reasons for his insolvency.

He rescued small debtors from prison, prostitutes from the streets; he distributed food, blankets and Bibles.

Under federal bankruptcy law, the courts may free debtors from burdensome contracts.

the creditors invent systems (the gold standard, Bretton Woods) to try and stop debtors from walking away from their debts.

"We could treat debt as a kind of taint of the blood, ineradicable, and keep debtors from ever starting a company again.

Unscrupulous credit collection agencies may add to the confusion by threatening to evict debtors from their houses when that's not legally possible.