"Play-Debt" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL

A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in dispute, such as a debt; a business compact.

To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.

The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, …

He owes and de-tains. words anciently used in the original writ, (aud now, in English, in the plaintiff's declaration,) in …

Lat. He detains. In old English law. A species of action of debt, which lay for the specific recovery of …

That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs …

RO. Suits in the ecclesiastical courts for spiritual of-fenses against conscience, for non-payment of debts, or breaches of civil contracts. …

To live; to have life or anima-tlon; to be in present force, activity, or effect at a given time: as …

In the civil law. A person who assumes the debt of another, and becomes solely liable for lt, by a …

In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some …

In the practice of the English supreme court of judicature there are two scales regulatingthe fees of the court and …

To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to …

The act or contract by which property is hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property …

To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; …

Men contract debts; they incur liabilities. In the one case, they act attirma-tlvely; in the other, the liability is incurred …

In Roman law. The contract of nomcn, which was constitut-ed by writing, (scripturA.) It was of two kinds, viz.: (1) …

In Spanish law. An obligation is said to he mancomunal when one person assumes the contract or debt of another, …

To grant or convey, as property, for the security of a debt, or other engagement, upon a condition that if …

A species of traverse which occurs in actions of debt on simple contract, and is resorted to when the defendant …

pangútang - To contract debts, run into debts, borrow. (cf. útang).