settle a debt

He could order a man's wife and children sold into slavery to settle a debt.

"I settled a debt as a transferee to your Sphere."

Good men are dead, and the time has come for you to settle a debt due for decades.

Never seen a man settle a debt before?'

This is Earl's way of settling a debt to his brother, Don, who, it turns out, owes a favor to someone else.

A Bailiff is an official of court and has the power to seize goods and sell them at auction to settle a debt.

A standard of deferred payment is the accepted way, in a given market, to settle a debt - a unit in which debts are denominated.

Benpres left the joint-venture in 2006 in order to settle a debt of US$150 million.

His younger brother pleaded guilty to lying to a grand jury about whether he had spoken to "anyone named Vinny" for help in settling a debt.

His father was in debt, so he hired Davy out to Abraham Wilson to settle a debt of $36.

So institutions sometimes buy into new issues in order to let the brokerage house get the commission built into the offering price, settling a debt in the process.

He first appears in volume 7 of the manga to settle a debt with Yakumo Fujii.

The dispute began when Ecuador attempted to sell Amazonian land claimed by Peru in order to settle a debt with British creditors.

Perhaps Quark wanted people to think he had settled a debt to Nortron and planned, when he had done so, to steal back his latinum.

In that vein, I would like your assistance in settling a debt owed by North Korea to Nikko Enterprises."

One group of mares sired by Esclavo in about 1736 were given to a group of Carthusian monks to settle a debt.

Chargeback is the return of funds to a consumer, forcibly initiated by the issuing bank of the instrument used by a consumer to settle a debt.

A year later, Balmain transferred his entire holding to settle a debt to John Bothwick Gilchrist before returning to Scotland.

Frutas en el Café tells the story of several characters: Faría, an audacious prostitute who has less than 24 hours to settle a debt or endanger her livelihood.

The shabby lady won her venture-aided once more by the male Scout, who chose, I am a told, an interesting point in the play to settle a debt he had long owed her.

Darren steals Frankie Osborne's (Helen Pearson) jewellery to settle a debt with a loan shark, and blames Newt (Nico Mirallegro), who is sent back to care.

His prize-winning novel, set in the fictional Cotton Pot, Ga., tells of a small- town white store owner who tracks down a young black man to settle a debt and instead kills a 14-year-old black girl.

Later, he said, after Mr. Hofmann had consigned the letter for sale at Sotheby's, he assigned proceeds from the sale to Mr. Wooley to settle a debt.

In a Deed dated 24 June 1662, Gilbert Lauder of Whitslaid agreed to settle a debt of 400 merks due to James Wright, writer (solicitor) in Edinburgh.

The resort dates back to 1937, when Arthur Winarick, a Russian émigré who founded the Jeris hair tonic company, settled a debt by taking over a small hotel that would become known as the Concord.