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Pure Debt

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

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.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In Scotch law. A debt due now and unconditionally is so called. It is thus distinguished from a future debt,
—payable at a fixed day in the future,
—and a contingent debt, which will only become due upon the happening of a certain contingency.

Defined under Debt in Black's Law Dictionary.