Perier and Salmon, the intendant, wished either to entrust the trade to an association of merchants or to have the crown furnish goods on credit to individuals who would repay their debts with pelts.

Disraeli's debts incurred from this debacle would haunt him for the rest of his life.

Diocletian therefore issued his Edict on Coinage, an act re-tariffing all debts so that the nummi, the most common coin in circulation, would be worth half as much.

In the edict, preserved in an inscription from the city of Aphrodisias in Caria ( near Geyre, Turkey ), it was declared that all debts contracted before 1 September 301 must be repaid at the old standards, while all debts contracted after that date would be repaid at the new standards.

Although formal certification of his freedom from Burghley's control was deferred until May 1572, Oxford was finally granted the income of £ 666 which his father had intended him to have earlier, but properties set aside to pay his father's debts would not come his way for another decade.

He would spend the rest of the decade working to pay his debts.

Moldova informed its bilateral creditors in mid-2003 that it would no longer service its debts.

However, it was also the time each year that disputes would be arbitrated, debts would be resolved, and trading would occur at Meccan fairs.

In a move that apparently surprised many islanders the Chief Minister of Norfolk Island David Buffett announced on 6 November 2010 that the island would voluntarily surrender its self-governing status in return for a financial bailout from the federal government to cover significant debts.

A freeman heavily in debt, and facing the threat of the punishment of being sold, would approach a wealthier man or chief with a plea to pay of his debts ‘ while I sit on your lap ’.

He believed that assimilation of Native Americans into the European-American economy would make them more dependent on trade, and that they would eventually be willing to give up land that they would otherwise not part with, in exchange for trade goods or to resolve unpaid debts.

It also confirmed that neither the United States nor any state would pay for the loss of slaves or debts that had been incurred by the Confederacy.

Over several years, he worked to pay off his debts and also continuously revised his manuscript for what, in 1854, he would publish as Walden, or Life in the Woods, recounting the two years, two months, and two days he had spent at Walden Pond.

The Allende government announced it would default on debts owed to international creditors and foreign governments.

To ensure that the government could meet both the current and future demands of its governmental accounts, an additional source of funding was required, " for interest payments on the assumed state debts would begin to fall due at the end of 1791 ... those payments would require $ 788, 333 annually, and ... an additional $ 38, 291 was needed to cover deficiencies in the funds that had been appropriated for existing commitments.

He said he believed that Germany had won the war industrially and commercially as its factories were intact and its debts would soon be overcome through ‘ manipulation ’.

Advertisers would not buy time, and with mounting debts, the Texas Night Train came to the end of its line.

Key points of the Lang Plan included the reduction of interest owed by Australian Governments on debts within Australia to 3 %, the cancellation of interest payments to overseas bondholders and financiers on government borrowings, the injection of more funds into the nation's money supply as central bank credit for the revitalisation of industry and commerce, and the abolition of the Gold standard, to be replaced by a " Goods Standard ," whereby the amount of currency in circulation would be fixed to the amount of goods produced within the Australian economy.

By 1419 it became clear that prisoners were far too comfortable here, as they were more likely to want to stay than to pay their debts and leave.

When the eminent Indian Poet of the 19th century, Michael Madhusudan Dutta, fell hopelessly into debts due to his reckless lifestyle during his stay in Versailles, France, he appealed for help to Vidyasagar, who laboured to ensure that sums owed to Michael from his property at home were remitted to him and sent him a large sum of money to France.

The General Assembly routinely ignored his calls for reform but did pass a measure he advocated that allowed debtors a one-year stay on collection of their debts if they provided both bond and security.

She convinced Billy to run the pub though his stay was very brief, as he had to sell the tenancy of the Rovers to pay his debts.

After they had paid all his debts and the funeral costs, Ralph and Fred had some fourteen thousand dollars, as I remember, with which to pay the bequests.

An elaborate history of characters and their lineages are spoken of, as well as their interactions with each other, debts owed and repaid, and deeds of valour.

A consumer proposal can only be made by a debtor with debts to a maximum of $ 250, 000 ( not including the mortgage on their principal residence ).

The most common reasons for personal insolvency in Sweden are illness, unemployment, divorce or company bankruptcy, not the reckless spending claimed by politicians and debt collection agencies when they describe the problem with deep personal debts.

Turning the club over to managers later revealed to be dishonest left Wills in desperate financial straits with heavy debts to the IRS for back taxes that caused him to sell many assets including, mistakenly, the rights to " New San Antonio Rose.

If the business ' debts exceed its assets, the bankruptcy restructuring results in the company's owners being left with nothing ; instead, the owners ' rights and interests are ended and the company's creditors are left with ownership of the newly reorganized company.

In exchange for such cooperation with the rival political side, Harley paid some of Defoe's outstanding debts, improving his financial situation considerably.

Don Quixote ’ s tendency to intervene violently in matters which do not concern him, and his habit of not paying his debts, result in many privations, injuries, and humiliations ( with Sancho often getting the worst of it ).

He was threatened with debtor's prison on at least one occasion, and was at times reduced to borrowing money and calling in old debts to make ends meet.

During his time there, Poe lost touch with Royster and also became estranged from his foster father over gambling debts.

Following revelations at the Moriarty Tribunal on 16 February 1999, in relation to Charles Haughey and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirmed that AIB and Ansbacher wrote off debts of almost £ 200, 000 that he owed in 1993, when he was in financial difficulties because of the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, GPA, in which he was a shareholder.

The production company went bankrupt, leaving both Fellini and Lattuada with debts to pay for over a decade.

Hamilton and Washington designed the Jay Treaty to normalize trade relations with Great Britain, remove them from western forts, and resolve financial debts left over from the Revolution.

In Europe, most countries left the gold standard with the start of World War I in 1914 and, with huge war debts, failed to return to gold as a medium of exchange.

At the court of Hungary there were two parties arrayed against each other: the Magyar party under the leadership of Zápolyas and the German party under the leadership of George of Brandenburg, whose authority was increased by the acquisition of the duchies of Ratibor and Oppeln by hereditary treaties with their respective dukes and of the territories of Oderberg, Beuthen, and Tarnowitz as pledges from the king of Bohemia, who could not redeem his debts.

Bavaria was especially unfortunate in this regard ; it was a rural land with very heavy debts and few growth centers.

The British Royal Navy scored a major victory over France in 1782 at the Battle of the Saintes and France finished the war with huge debts and the minor gain of the island of Tobago.

Faced with large debts accumulated during the reign of his father, John George instituted a grain tax which drove part of the peasantry into dependence on a nobility that was exempt from taxation.

I John Audubon, having this day mutual consent with Ferdinand Rozier, dissolved and forever closed the partnership and firm of Audubon and Rozier, and having Received from said Ferdinand Rozier payment and notes to the full amount of my part of the goods and debts of the late firm of Audubon and Rozier, I the said John Audubon one of the firm aforesaid do hereby release and forever quit claim to all and any interest which I have or may have in the stock on hand and debts due to the late firm of Audubon and Rozier assign, transfer and set over to said Ferdinand Rozier, all my rights, titles, claims and interest in the goods, merchandise and debts due to the late firm of Audubon and Rozier, and do hereby authorize and empower him for my part, to collect the same in any manner what ever either privately or by suit or suits in law or equity hereby declaring him sole and absolute proprietor and rightful owner of all goods, merchandise and debts of this firm aforesaid, as completely as they were the goods and property of the late firm Audubon and Rozier.