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Pure Debt

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Scotch law

A debt actually due, in contradistinction to one which provisionally, in a certain event, which is called a "contingent debt."

1 Bell, Comm. (5th Ed.) 315.