Crossword clues for insolvent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insolvent \In*sol"vent\, a. [Pref. in- not + solvent: cf. OF. insolvent.] (Law)
Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor.
Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner; as, an insolvent estate.
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Relating to persons unable to pay their debts.
Insolvent law, or Act of insolvency, a law affording relief, -- subject to various modifications in different States, -- to insolvent debtors, upon their delivering up their property for the benefit of their creditors; bankruptcy law. See Bankrupt law, under Bankrupt, a.
Insolvent \In*sol"vent\, n. (Law)
One who is insolvent; as insolvent debtor; -- in England,
before 1861, especially applied to persons not traders.
--Bouvier.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Unable to pay one's bills as they fall due. 2 Owing more than one has in assets. 3 Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner. n. (context legal English) One who is insolvent; an insolvent debtor.
WordNet
Usage examples of "insolvent".
Even in higher life, a couple of our Ayrshire noblemen, and the major part of our knights and squires, are all insolvent.
Having died insolvent, it had been purchased, at a bargain, by Legree, who used it, as he did everything else, merely as an implement for money-making.
Lucy habitually sacrifices her financial affairs to her amatory ones, a tendency apotheosized and, ironically, terminated by the handsome, insolvent Adorno.
His only recourse is an action of debt, or assumpsit, against Allen individually, and as Allen is notoriously insolvent, Wade and his bondsman will have to make up this deficit.
On a superficial study of your affairs, it looks to us as if your borrowings may well exceed your assets, possibly leaving you insolvent.
He declared at first that he had paid the hundred thousand livres with his own money but when reminded of his various bankruptcies, the claims of his creditors, and the judgments obtained against him as an insolvent debtor, he made a complete volte-face, and declared he had borrowed the money from an advocate named Duclos, to whom he had given a bond in presence of a notary.
After almost two T-centuries of deficit spending to shore up an increasingly insolvent welfare state, Haven had decided it had no choice but to turn conquistador to acquire the resources it needed to support its citizens in the style to which they had become accustomed, and the People's Navy had proven its capacity to do just that over the course of the last five decades.
After almost two T-centuries of deficit spending to shore up an increasingly insolvent welfare state, Haven had decided it had no choice but to turn conquistador to acquire the resources it needed to support its citizens in the style to which they had become accustomed, and the Peoples Navy had proven its capacity to do just that over the course of the last five decades.
After almost two Tcenturies of deficit spending to shore up an increasingly insolvent welfare state, Haven had decided it had no choice but to turn conquistador to acquire the resources it needed to support its citizens in the style to which they had become accustomed, and the Peoples Navy had proven its capacity to do just that over the course of the last five decades.
After almost two T-centuries of deficit spending to shore up an increasingly insolvent welfare state, Haven had decided it had no choice but to turn conquistador to acquire the resources it needed to support its citizens in the style to which they had become accustomed, and the People’.
The better class of minds, however, did not need to be informed that the Powlers were an ancient stock, who could trace themselves so exceedingly far back that it was not surprising if they sometimes lost themselves - which they had rather frequently done, as respected horseflesh, blind-hookey, Hebrew monetary transactions, and the Insolvent Debtors Court.