fixed liability
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Definitions from Case Law
From 267 U.S. 467 - Lewis v. Roberts · 1925Most cited · 70 citing opinions
It includes a 'fixed liability' evidenced by a judgment ex delicto as well as by a judgment ex contractu, and makes the one as well as the other a provable 'debt.' There is nothing in the language or in the context which suggests its limitation to judgments founded on debts or warrants the reading in of such a limitation.