ABSCONDING DEBTOR
A person who owes money to another person and he runs away from his creditors or goes into hiding so he cannot be found.
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ABSCOND
Running away from the law, to make yourself absent in an attempt to avoid the legal process.
PONZI SCHEME
A scam which is usually carried out on the general public, by making returns of high promises in a shorter time period. It is primarily based upon paying off the early investors
VERIFY
To confirm or substantiate by oath ; to show to be true. Particularly used of making formal oath to accouuts, petitions, pleadings, and other papers. The word “verify” sometimes means to confirm
SHORT SUMMONS
A process, authorized in some of the states, to be issued against an absconding, fraudulent, or nonresident debtor, which is returnable within a less number of days than an ordinary writ of
ATTACHMENT
The act or process of taking, apprehending, or seizing persons or property, by virtue of a writ, summons, or other judicial order, and bringing the same into the custody of the law;
NOTOUR
In Scotch law. Open; notorious. A notour bankrupt is a debtor who, being under diligence by horning and caption of his creditor, retires to sanctuary or absconds or defends by force, and
MEDITATIO FUGiE
In Scotch law. Contemplation of flight; intention to abscond. 2 Kames, Eq. 14, 15.
JUMP BAIL
To abscond, withdraw, or secrete one’s self, in violation of the obligation of a bail-bond. The expression is colloquial, and is applied only to the act of the principal.
