Confidential creditor
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
This term has been applied to the creditors of a failing debtor who furnished him with the means of obtaining credit to which he was not entitled, involving in loss the unsuspecting and fair-dealing creditors.
Gay v. Strickland, 112 Ala. 567, 20 South. 921.