insolvent

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Insolvent usually describes a business or individual that can’t pay its debts as they come due.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

Embarress’d man be just and true, Insolvent acts releases you; I mean your person from a jail, Tho’ keen reproach the man assail.

From Poetical Works comprising Elegies, Sketches from Life, Pathetic, and Extempore Pieces by Parkerson, James

In this way I gained some needed income, acquired a knowledge of the Insolvent Law, and more than all, I gained the acquaintances of the leading lawyers of the county.

From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by Boutwell, George S.

Nor will I allow you, with one letter, to take advantage of the Insolvent Act, and thus to free yourself from all claims at once.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

Charles Dickens’s father’s “attempts to avoid going through the courts having failed, all needful ceremonies had to be undertaken to obtain the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors’ Act.”

From In Jail with Charles Dickens by Trumble, Alfred