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Definition of Bankrupts
1. bankrupt [v] - See also: bankrupt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bankrupts
Literary usage of Bankrupts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"In the present case the bankrupts were insolvent in both senses of the term at the
... And for months previous the bankrupts had failed to meet their ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"Perkins and Others, Assignees of Dickinson and Others, bankrupts. 9 East, II.
Nov. 7, 1807. A customer paying bills, not due, into his bankers' in the ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Roger Meeson, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1845)
"The defendants, * bankers in Lon- sc., to recover the balance of a banking account
alleged to don, had acted be due from the defendants to the bankrupts at ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by William Brown, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Robert Henley Eden Henley (1819)
"Thaton the 9th of December, 1772, the petitioners lent th, i,.,, rupts £3000,
for wh.ch the bankrupts gave a prom £ so^v note m the following terms : "We ..."
5. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips, John A Heraud, Benson E Hill (1796)
"... the bankrupts in England, for the recovery of the debt due to ... property \\hich
had belonged to the bankrupts, in the hands of lèverai ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by William Brown, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Robert Belt (1820)
"That, on the 9th of December, 1772, the petitioners lent the bankrupts 3000/., for
which the bankrupts gave a promissory note in the following terms : " We ..."