This is a legal order to pay the full amount of the debt.

He later revised that figure, saying the amount of the debt was actually about $40 million.

However, the debtor may have to post a bond in the amount of the debt.

The notes payable always include only the principal amount of the debt.

They can seize and sell goods to recover the amount of the debt.

In a case where there are multiple guarantors, usually each party is responsible for the entire amount of the debt.

A debt secured by property that is worth less than the amount of the debt.

The grossed up amount of the debt should therefore be included in the taxpayers' total incomes for higher rate tax purposes.

The court charges a small fee, which may not exceed ten pence in the pound on the total amount of the debts.

Such debt was acquired at market prices which in the aggregate were less than the principal amount of the debt.

A creditor of the partnership may therefore sue any partner for the full amount of the debt.

Other options for the banks include shorter-term bonds on which the face amount of the debt owed would be reduced in exchange.

At the top of the list: you may have to pay up to the full amount of the debt if the borrower does not pay.

Another negative is the widespread expectation that Brazil will insist that a large amount of the debt must be reduced in the negotiations.

Mr. Lasry's fund has owned a small amount of the debt issued by Citigroup.

The Tax Commissioner insisted instead that they actually realized a gain of $400,000; the difference between the principal amount of the debt and their basis.

Mr. Hay said those banks held a small amount of the debt Lomas is trying to restructure - about $30 million.

When the property is sold, the amount of the debt is paid to the plaintiff out of the proceeds of sale.

For that one, Jordan broke his silence today, even if only by the release of a statement to say the amount of the debt claimed was preposterous.

A creditor is fully secured if the value of the collateral for its loan to the debtor equals or exceeds the amount of the debt.

About 300 banks are involved, and because they have yet to decide which approaches they will use, the precise amount of the debt reduction could not be determined.

Somewhere along the way, the new government realized that although there was abundant financial skulduggery, the greater amount of the debt stemmed from genuinely honest-to-goodness failures.

"That means that if one owner stops making his share of payments, the other owners are going to be liable for the full amount of the debt."

There was a proviso that should the value of the jewels exceed the amount of the debt, the excess must be paid over to the king's treasury.

A full recourse debt gives the granter the right to take any and all assets of the debtor, up to the full amount of the debts.