Sentence examples for lawful debts from inspiring English sources

These lawful debts must now be paid.

Often, freeman-on-the-land tropes are invoked by people trying to wiggle out of debts - or mischievous contracts, I guess - by claiming that only "lawful debts" can be upheld, demanding that gas or electricity companies provide "validation of debts" and hand-signed invoices in line with ancient laws.

Former President Clinton, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, among many other political leaders are calling upon the President to use his authority under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to pay for the lawful debts the federal government has made.

The writer would be happy to pay "any lawful debt", but only if I provide "validation of the debt: the actual accounting" and "a hand-signed invoice in accordance with the Bills of Exchange Act (1882)".

It was viewed with distrust due to the possibility of abuse; Edward Coke wrote that "there were two Inventors of Uses, Fear and Fraud; Fear in Times of Troubles and civil Wars to save their Inheritances from being forfeited; and Fraud to defeat due Debts, lawful Actions, Wards, Escheats, Mortmains etc".

The Outline refers to "fundamental information" about a consumer and his or her indebtedness that must be extant and transferred to a debt collector or debt buyer to support lawful collection efforts.

Forgiving debt owed pursuant to a lawful, valid contract risks creating a longer-term view by investors that the mortgage contract is less secure than ever before.

Beyond that, it can be argued that the statutory raising of the debt ceiling is just a pro forma recognition of previous lawful congressional actions on taxes and spending that created the debt in the first place.

The bills would be "lawful money and a legal tender in the payment of all debts".

WASHINGTON — The Democratic leadership in the Senate asked President Obama on Friday to take "any lawful steps" available to avoid a default on the nation's debt if Republicans continue to press their demand that an increase in the government's borrowing limit be accompanied by spending cuts of the same magnitude.

Here there are a bona fide subsisting debt, evidenced by the note, whereof the bank is the lawful holder, and a lien which Price & Co., before their attempted transfer of it, could have made available.