debt adjusting
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 372 U.S. 726 - Ferguson v. Skrupa · 1963Most cited · 1,991 citing opinions
the making of a contract, express, or implied with a particular debtor whereby the debtor agrees to pay a certain amount of money periodically to the person engaged in the debt adjusting business who shall for a consideration distribute the same among certain specified creditors in accordance with a plan agreed upon
How often courts cite the case defining “debt adjusting”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “debt adjusting” — 1,985 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.