Debt, debtors

Therefore, requests for early repayment by more than 40 percent of the debtors could be met. Hence, no hquidity problems are likely to arise, and advantage can be taken of discounts for early payment. Also, the current debt could be met by sale of the inventoiy, which takes (0.140 As/As)(365), or 51 days. The quick ratio is 172.45 = 0.407. 

Schuldigkeit,/. duty, obligation, debt. Schuldner, tn. debtor. 

Charles was still in debt, and he was sent to debtors prison several times for not paying his bills.That didn t stop his work, though he asked his wife to bring him raw rubber and a rolling pin while he was in prison so he could continue his rubber experiments. 

At the age of 22 he went to London and qualified as a doctor, which allowed him to practise in Rugeley. Despite his inheritance. Palmer had debts and one of his creditors, a man named Bladon, was poisoned while he stayed in Palmer s house. The man s widow did not go to the police despite being urged to by friends. Another creditor, a Mr Bly, suffered the same fate and Palmer even asked the man s widow for the money, claiming that Bly had been the debtor. 

And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. We cannot receive forgiveness from God for our debts, if we do not first forgive those who owe a debt to us.-... 

In the course of history, the illness of bad conscience reached a terrible and sublime peak. In prehistoiy, argues Nietzsche, the basic creditor-debtor relationship that informs human social and economic activity also finds expression in religious rites and worship, for example, the way a tribal community expresses thanks to earlier generations. Over time the ancestor is turned into a god and associated with the feeling of fear (the birth of superstition). Christianity cultivates further the moral or religious sentiment of debt, and does so in terms of a truly monstrous level of sublime feeling God is cast as the ultimate ancestor who cannot be repaid (GM, II, 20). 

Small producers and merchants might have been expected to react very favourably to this proposal. As extenders of credit, they needed machinery for recovery of debts -and a man in prison could not be forced to pay, indeed might even go there (where the living was comfortable enough if they had money to buy provisions and to bribe the jailers) to avoid it. And when they were debtors themselves, they needed to stay out of prison to trade their way into a position to pay. 

Among defaulting debtors themselves, it is a demand that is often read with some suspicion and/or confusion, as the following posts on the Consumer Action Group online debt advice forum show ... 

Referring to the petition of the Lord s Prayer, forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors . Cf Mt 6.12 Lk 11.4, and 39. In early African Christianity, this prayer was repeated each day, as well as in the celebration of the eucharist. 

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