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insolvent, a. (n.)|ɪnˈsɒlvənt|
[f. in-3 + solvent, L. solvent-em paying.]
Not solvent.
1. Unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's liabilities; bankrupt. Said of persons, companies, commercial or financial concerns, estates, etc.
1591Horsey Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) 246 The..merchants tradinge those countries..became insolvent. 1662Petty Taxes 57 Why should not insolvent thieves be rather punished with slavery than death? 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xvii. II. 71 The cruel treatment of the insolvent debtors of the state. 1817Ld. Ellenborough in Maule & Selwyn's Rep. VI. 316 When he knew himself insolvent, and when ruin and bankruptcy were staring him in the face. 1871W. Markby Elem. Law §548 A man may owe more than he is worth, and therefore if a money value is set on his collective legal relations he may be what is called insolvent. 1883Law Times 20 Oct. 409/1 The proceedings connected with the management, in insolvent estates.
†2. Not able to be cashed or realized. Obs.
1667Ormonde MSS. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 45 Your petitioner received assignments for part of six moneths' pay for the said troop, part of which assignments proved insolvent. 1728Young Love Fame v. 400 How will the miser startle, to be told Of such a wonder, as insolvent gold?
3. Of, pertaining, or relating to insolvents or insolvency.
1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. II. 365 In Philadelphia, from six to eight hundred persons annually take the benefit of the insolvent laws. 1837Thackeray Ravenswing i, He had been through the Insolvent Court. 1853Wharton Pa. Digest II. 19 A debtor who has no property whatever is nevertheless entitled to the benefit of the insolvent laws.
B. n. An insolvent debtor.
1725Watts Logic i. vi. §2 An insolvent is a man that cannot pay his debts. 1767T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. II. i. 65 Creditors of a deceased insolvent shall be paid their full debts. 1883Wharton's Law Lex. (ed. 7) 419 An insolvent as distinguished from a bankrupt, was an insolvent who was not a trader; for originally only a trader could be made bankrupt, in the sense of obtaining an absolute discharge from his debts, while the future estate of an insolvent remained liable for his debts, even after his discharge.
Hence † inˈsolventness (Bailey vol. II, 1727). |