Insolvent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INSOLVENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• one who is insolvent
• an insolvent person.
• One who is insolvent; as insolvent debtor; -- in England, before 1861, especially applied to persons not traders.
• someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts
• person who is insolvent
ADJECTIVE:
• unable to pay debts owed
• relating to insolvency
• Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one\'s debts; unable to pay one\'s debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor.
• Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner; as, an insolvent estate.
• Relating to persons unable to pay their debts.
• unable to meet or discharge financial obligations
• unable to pay one's debts
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business; having liabilities in excess of a reasonable market value of assets held
• unable to pay one\'s debts

Words related to INSOLVENT

insolvencies17 insolvency18 insolvents13

How to use INSOLVENT in a sentence

• There had been but few failures, and those were generally of houses that ought to fail, being insolvent from losses or mismanagement.
• Before emancipation, Jamaica was insolvent, her plantations were mortgaged beyond their value, and its planting was threatened in other ways far more than now.
• Royal had died insolvent, and his property had been disposed of at auction, filled him with alarm.
• The receipts for the hundred and twenty thousand francs, which constituted Pascal the personal creditor of Grandguillot, were valueless, since the latter was insolvent.
• The latter expire by limitation or by becoming insolvent.
• His children would die of the measles, his horses break their knees, his plate be stolen, his house catch fire, and Mark Armsworth die insolvent.
• When grandmother applied to him for payment, he said the estate was insolvent, and the law prohibited payment.
• It is not unlikely that the whole of what is left may be drawn within the next five minutes, and the next draft upon you will find you insolvent.
• In the new century arrived Oglethorpe, with his insolvent debtors, soon to find Spaniards from St.
• In some cases one half of the produce of the labour is applied to the reduction of the debt, and this situation of the insolvent debtor is termed be-blah.
• A legacy, and the Insolvent Debtors Act, enabled Mr.
• I had expected this, and certainly, when from day to day a man may be obliged to declare himself insolvent, keeping a horse does seem rather absurd.
• Insolvent debtors in Massachusetts could not get discharge from their debts contracted in such dealings.
• In 1838 the Insolvent Law was enacted, and its administration was confided to Masters in Chancery.
• Russell soon gained a reputation for leniency in the matter of granting discharges to the insolvent debtors, and his business increased rapidly.
• The Insolvent Law, amended, to be sure, has remained on the statute books of Massachusetts to this day, and the United States Bankrupt Law was modeled upon it.
• Only one was found insolvent, a bank at Pawtucket on the Rhode Island line.
• Titmarsh, I have had the good fortune to see a list of your debts from the Insolvent Court, and find that you are indebted to Mr.
• But the bankrupt had signed the illicit notes with the name of his insolvent firm, and he was therefore able to bring them under the reduction of sixty-five per cent.
• The result was that the concern became insolvent, with liabilities to the extent of L250,000, and without a copper in the shape of assets except the works at Dalry.
• Bankers often take money on deposit after the bank is insolvent.
• If the widow and children have no other means of support the allowance may be made though the estate is insolvent.
• From that day to this, the condition of an insolvent, however honest and worthy, has been utterly hopeless, so far as he depended on any legal mode of relief.
• If we still refuse, what is to be done? Many of these insolvent persons are young men with young families.
• How can we, how dare we, make a perfect dead letter of this part of the Constitution, which we have sworn to support? The insolvent persons have not the power of locomotion.
• Gawffaw was the daughter of a trader in some manufacturing town, who had lived in opulence and died insolvent.
• The proprietors soon became insolvent, so that he received nothing, but he kept on just the same as if he had been paid regularly.
• I was not insolvent, but I needed capital, the life-blood of industry.
• It was represented that nothing had been sold from the brand in a number of years, the estate was insolvent, and the trustee was anxious to sell the entire stock outright.
• On another occasion the defendant, on being fined, was found to be totally insolvent.
• Harding has died insolvent, and father has to make certain payments or lose control of a valuable property.
• She excused herself for not giving them their freedom on the ground that her husband died insolvent, leaving her the responsibility of settling his debts.
• The number of insolvent houses grew in seven years from 880 to 4719.
• It was from that time that the great wealth of the Garmans really dated, while Worse in a few years squandered his money and died insolvent.
• When her husband died, he was about as insolvent as a man could be.

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