Sentence examples for his debtor from inspiring English sources

A creditor was allowed to force his debtor to work for him, but he could not sell him.

When a loan could not be repaid, he would take an equity stake in his debtor's business.

An insolvency law passed in New Jersey in 1798 was meant to save poor debtors from starvation by requiring a creditor to pay four shillings a week for his debtor's keep.

While waiting for his debtor, Lonnigan, to regain consciousness, Trent takes up employment with the LSF under Jun'ko Zane, who provides him with a small ship.

Portia, who's been denounced as a cruel snob by modern commentators more sympathetic to Shylock, certainly did treat him with a contempt tinged with bigotry, and she pursued an extreme punishment against him, including forced conversion to Christianity, even after she'd prevented him from taking his debtor's pound of flesh.

That morning, he had tried to cash several postdated checks and credit-card payments provided by his debtors.

'I don't trust this motherfucker — he don't sound like me.' " Jimmy said that most of his debtors are white, but that even black debtors are more likely to trust a white collector.

In his last years, the abbey may have offered him sanctuary from his debtors after he ran into financial troubles, as poets will.

His debtors overturned Quinn's attempt to bankrupt himself in Belfast after arguing his main address was in the Republic of Ireland.

We are paying in order to project power in the region — but right now, we're projecting the weakness of a creditor who needs his debtors more than they need him.

The first, lusty voice we hear belongs to Stewart Jameson, a "face-painter and libertine" who in 1764 flees his native Edinburgh to escape his debtors and lands in Boston with his slobbering mastiff, Gulliver.