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  • 91adjust — To settle or to bring to a satisfactory state, so that the parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts. State ex rel. Sayre v Moore, 40 Neb 854, 59 NW 755. When applied to a liquidated demand, the verb adjust has the same meaning as… …

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  • 92claim in corporate reorganization — A claim of whatever character against a debtor or its property, except stock, whether or not such claim is provable in an ordinary bankruptcy proceeding and whether secured or unsecured, liquidated or unliquidated, fixed or contingent. Bankr Act… …

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  • 93claim in proceeding for readjustment of public debt under the Bankruptcy Act — The claim of a creditor holding securities in the technical or nontechnical sense, even a holder of an unliquidated claim against the municipality or other public body. 9 Am J2d Bankr § 1423 …

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  • 94claim in proceeding for wage earner's plan — A claim of whatever character against the debtor or his property, whether or not provable as a debt in ordinary bankruptcy, and whether secured or unsecured, liquidated or unliquidated, fixed or contingent, but not a claim secured by an estate in …

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  • 95claim in real property arrangement — A claim of whatever character against the debtor or his property, whether or not such is provable in ordinary bankruptcy and whether secured or unsecured, liquidated or unliquidated, fixed or contingent. 9 Am J2d Bankr § 1359 …

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  • 96compromise — An agreement to terminate, by means of mutual concessions, a controversy over a claim which is disputed in good faith or unliquidated. 15 Am J2d Compr § 1 …

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  • 97creditor — An obligee, a person, natural or artificial, public or private, in whose favor an obligation exists by reason of which he is or may become entitled to the payment of money, at least if the obligation is one on a liquidated demand based upon an… …

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  • 98debt — A common law action for the recovery of a fixed and definite sum of money or for a sum of money which can be ascertained from fixed data by computation or is capable of being readily reduced to certainty. 1 Am J2d Actions § 20; that which is… …

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  • 99goods, effects, and credits — A very comprehensive term, covering tangibles and intangibles, but not inclusive of a claim for unliquidated damages not in judgment. Wilde v Mahaney, 183 Mass 455, 67 NE 337 …

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  • 100indebtedness — The aggregate of a person s debts. A single debt. The state of being obligated upon a debt or debts. For the purpose of deducting interest in computing net income for tax purposes:–an unconditional obligation. Gilman v Commissioner (CA8) 53 F2d… …

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