| 单词 | crown debt |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrown debt crown debt n. (a) a debt due to the Crown, having preference over all other debts; (b) a debt owed by the Crown. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > other types of debt crown debt1641 debt of honour1646 oblata1658 judgment debt1702 bond-debt1707 rumple1746 contingent liability1798 overdraft1812 current liability1832 receivable1836 minority debt1897 negative equity1946 eligible liability1971 1641 Office & Dutie Executors xii. 28 I see not how he shall well escape, when pursued in the Exchequer to make up this Crowne debt out of his owne purse. ?1696 C. Tooker Famous Coll. Papers & Pamphlets sig. Cv State Disbursements and Accompts, Crown Rents, Propositions to pay Crown Debts, about the Exchequer Affairs, Banks, Proposals of Annual Revenues. 1749 London Evening Post 14 Nov. 1/1 The Crown Debts..are not yet to be paid off. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 515 An assignment of a term for years will not protect a purchaser from a crown debt. 1925 Bankruptcy Ordinance iii. §35.1, in Kenya Gaz. Suppl. 20 In the distribution of the property of a bankrupt there shall be paid in priority to all other debts:—(a) All Crown debts and local rates due from the bankrupt at the date of the receiving order, [etc.]. 2006 Econ. Hist. Rev. 59 638 In the mid-1580s his crown debts alone had risen to £11,000. < as lemmas |
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