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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Debtor \Debt"or\, n. [OE. dettur, dettour, OF detor, detur, detour, F. d['e]biteur, fr L. debitor, fr debere to owe. See {Debt}.] One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor. [I 'll] bring your latter hazard back again And thankfully rest debtor for the first --Shak. In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor. --Mitford. Debtors for our lives to you --Tennyson. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: debtor n : someone who owes money [ant: {creditor}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Debtor Various regulations as to the relation between debtor and creditor are laid down in the Scriptures. (1.) The debtor was to deliver up as a pledge to the creditor what he could most easily dispense with (Deut. 24:10, 11). (2.) A mill, or millstone, or upper garment, when given as a pledge, could not be kept over night (Ex. 22:26, 27). (3.) A debt could not be exacted during the Sabbatic year (Deut. 15:1-15). For other laws bearing on this relation see Lev. 25:14, 32, 39; Matt. 18:25, 34. (4.) A surety was liable in the same way as the original debtor (Prov. 11:15; 17:18).
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