creditors' bill
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 46 U.S. 134 - Rowan v. Runnels · 1847Most cited · 73 citing opinions
These bills are formally, as well as substantially, creditors' bills, by which the complainants are regularly and properly united in seeking satisfaction from subjects against which, as creditors of the defendants, they can properly claim.
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