unliquidated debt

  • 1unliquidated debt — Remaining not determined; unassessed or unsettled; in dispute as to the proper amount. Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations …

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  • 2unliquidated debt — An obligation which has not been reduced to a specific money amount; also, there may be a bona fide dispute between the parties as to this undetermined amount Compare liquidated debt …

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  • 3debt — n [Old French dette, ultimately from Latin debita, plural of debitum debt, from neuter of debitus, past participle of debere to owe] 1: something owed: as a: a specific sum of money or a performance due another esp. by agreement (as a loan… …

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  • 4unliquidated claim — or demand A claim which has not been finally determined either as to liability or amount of damages. A disputed claim. Under the law of accord and satisfaction, a claim or debt will be regarded as unliquidated if it is in dispute as to the proper …

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  • 5unliquidated demand — unliquidated claim or demand A claim which has not been finally determined either as to liability or amount of damages. A disputed claim. Under the law of accord and satisfaction, a claim or debt will be regarded as unliquidated if it is in… …

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  • 6unliquidated claim or demand — A claim which has not been finally determined either as to liability or amount of damages. A disputed claim. Under the law of accord and satisfaction, a claim or debt will be regarded as unliquidated if it is in dispute as to the proper amount.… …

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  • 7debt — 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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  • 8existing debt — To have an existing debt it is sufficient if there is an absolute debt owing though the period for its payment may not yet have arrived. A tax may be a debt within meaning of agreement to assume existing debts . Shepard v. Commissioner of… …

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  • 9existing debt — To have an existing debt it is sufficient if there is an absolute debt owing though the period for its payment may not yet have arrived. A tax may be a debt within meaning of agreement to assume existing debts . Shepard v. Commissioner of… …

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  • 10claim 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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