judgment debt
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of judgment debt
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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The Havlish plaintiffs — about 150 people, linked to 47 estates of the nearly 3,000 people killed — moved to seize some of that money to pay off the Taliban’s judgment debt to them.
From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2022
Lawyers in the Havlish case had earlier proposed a similar arrangement, dividing the assets between humanitarian relief and paying off the Taliban’s judgment debt to their clients.
From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2022
Their judgment debt is roughly equal to all the assets in the account.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021
The bankruptcy application was made by private bankers Arbuthnot Latham & Co in connection with a judgment debt owed to them by Becker dating back to 2015.
From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2017
Then another officer, who had been hunting him in couples with the other, stepped forward and took HIM, for the balance of a judgment debt.
From A Simpleton by Reade, Charles
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