Insolvent law
| a law affording relief, - subject to various modifications in different States, - to insolvent debtors, upon their delivering up their property for the benefit of their creditors; bankruptcy law. See Bankrupt law, under Bankrupt, a. |
See also: Insolvent
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.