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Meaning of DEBTOR

Pronunciation:  'detur

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt
 
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 Antonyms: creditor
 
 See Also: deadbeat, defaulter, fly-by-night, human, individual, mortal, mortgager, mortgagor, person, somebody, someone, soul

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Debt"or\, n. [OE. dettur, dettour, OF. detor, detur,
detour, F. d['e]biteur, fr. L. debitor, fr. debere to owe.
See {Debt}.]
One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to
creditor.
      [I 'll] bring your latter hazard back again, And
      thankfully rest debtor for the first.    --Shak.
      In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his
      creditor.                                --Mitford.
      Debtors for our lives to you.            --Tennyson.
 
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Legal Dictionary
 
 Definition: One who owes a debt to another; a person filing for relief under theBankruptcy Code.
 
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Easton Bible Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

Various regulations as to the relation between debtor and creditor are laid down in the Scriptures.

(1.) The debtor was to deliver up as a pledge to the creditor what he could most easily dispense with (Deut. 24:10, 11).

(2.) A mill, or millstone, or upper garment, when given as a pledge, could not be kept over night (Ex. 22:26, 27).

(3.) A debt could not be exacted during the Sabbatic year (Deut. 15:1-15).

For other laws bearing on this relation see Lev. 25:14, 32, 39; Matt. 18:25, 34.

(4.) A surety was liable in the same way as the original debtor (Prov. 11:15; 17:18).

 
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