Desperate
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Of which there is no hope. This term is used frequently in making hope of recovering it. It is then called a desperate debt, and, if it be so returned, it will be prima facie considered as desperate.
See Toll. Ex. 248; 2 Wms. Ex. 644; 1 Chitt. Pr. 5S0; Schultz v. Pulver, 11 Wend. (N. T.) 365.