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  2. Debtor - Wikipedia

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    The counterparty is called a creditor. When the counterpart of this debt arrangement is a bank, the debtor is more often referred to as a borrower. If X borrowed money from their bank, X is the debtor and the bank is the creditor. If X puts money in the bank, X is the creditor and the bank is the debtor. It is not a crime to fail to pay a debt.

  3. List of countries by net international investment position ...

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    This is a list of debtor nations by net international investment position per capita. This is a list of debtor nations of the world sorted by their net international investment positions (NIIPs) per capita. A debtor nation is a sovereign state that has a negative NIIP, i.e. a country that has net external liabilities, NOT net external assets. [52]

  4. Debits and credits - Wikipedia

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    Sherman goes on to say that the earliest text he found that actually uses "Dr." as an abbreviation in this context was an English text, the third edition (1633) of Ralph Handson's book Analysis or Resolution of Merchant Accompts [9] and that Handson uses Dr. as an abbreviation for the English word "debtor." (Sherman could not locate a first ...

  5. Debt settlement - Wikipedia

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    Debt settlement (also called debt reduction, debt negotiation or debt resolution) is a settlement negotiated with a debtor's unsecured creditor. Commonly, creditors agree to forgive a large part of the debt: perhaps around half, though results can vary widely. When settlements are finalized, the terms are put in writing.

  6. Doctrine of marshalling - Wikipedia

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    Marshalling is an equitable doctrine applied in the context of lending. It was described by Lord Hoffmann as: [A] principle for doing equity between two or more creditors, each of whom are owed debts by the same debtor, but one of whom can enforce his claim against more than one security or fund and the other can resort to only one.

  7. Debtor and Creditor - Wikipedia

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    English. Read; Edit; View history ... Download as PDF; Printable version ... move to sidebar hide. Debtor and Creditor can refer to: Debtor; Creditor; See also. Debt ...

  8. Unsecured creditor - Wikipedia

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    An unsecured creditor is a creditor other than a preferential creditor that does not have the benefit of any security interests in the assets of the debtor. [1]In the event of the bankruptcy of the debtor, the unsecured creditors usually obtain a pari passu distribution out of the assets of the insolvent company on a liquidation in accordance with the size of their debt after the secured ...

  9. Credit theory of money - Wikipedia

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    From this main theory springs the sub-theory that the value of credit or money does not depend on the value of any metal or metals, but on the right which the creditor acquires to "payment," that is to say, to satisfaction for the credit, and on the obligation of the debtor to "pay" his debt and conversely on the right of the debtor to release ...