Petitioning Creditor
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The creditor at whose instance an adjudication of bankruptcy is made against a bankrupt. ticularly in an action in rem; a demandant. Calv. Lex. Actor est qui agit in personam, petitor, qui agit in rem, an actor is one who prosecutes against a person, a demandant one who prosecutes against a thing. Cujac. Observ. lib.
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