Either she has sold herself into slavery for debt, or she is with a lover who demands money in order to give her up, because Hosea has to buy her back.

* Debt bondage, a modern form of slavery in which people are bound by debt, rather than legal ownership

If a man owed and he could not pay, he and his wife, children or servants were forced into " debt slavery ", until the creditor recouped losses via their physical labour.

Many city-states in ancient Greece limited debt slavery to a period of five years and debt slaves had protection of life and limb, which regular slaves did not enjoy.

Other tribes practiced debt slavery or imposed slavery on tribal members who had committed crimes ; but, this status was only temporary as the enslaved worked off their obligations to the tribal society.

Historically, slavery was institutionally recognized by many societies ; in more recent times slavery has been outlawed in most societies but continues through the practices of debt bondage, indentured servitude, serfdom, domestic servants kept in captivity, certain adoptions in which children are forced to work as slaves, child soldiers, and forced marriage.

Victims are forced into a " debt slavery " situation by coercion, deception, fraud, intimidation, isolation, threat, physical force, debt bondage or even force-feeding with drugs of abuse to control their victims.

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It has been observed also that the seisachtheia not only removed slavery and accumulated debt, it also removed the ordinary farmer's only means of obtaining further credit.

After Porfirio Díaz rose to power in 1876, the Mexican social and economic system was essentially a feudal system, with large estates ( haciendas ) controlling much of the land and squeezing out the independent communities of the people who were subsequently forced into debt slavery ( peonaje ) on the haciendas.

In the Greco-Roman world, debt bondage was a distinct legal category into which free persons might fall, in theory temporarily, distinguished from the pervasive practice of slavery, which included enslavement as a result of defaulting on debt.

The selling of one's own child into slavery is likely in most cases to have resulted from extreme poverty or debt, but strictly speaking is a form of chattel slavery, not debt bondage.

Pawnage or pawn slavery is a form of servitude akin to bonded labor under which the debtor provides another human being as security or collateral for the debt.

He implemented a system of debt slavery and forced labor and passed laws allowing landowners to execute workers as a " disciplinary " measure.

* Debt forgiveness was also found in Ancient Athens, where in the 6th century BCE, the lawmaker Solon instituted a set of laws called seisachtheia, and which canceled all debts and retroactively canceled previous debts that had caused slavery and serfdom, freeing debt slaves and debt serfs.

If a debt cannot be or is not repaid, alternatives that were common historically but are now rare include debt bondage – including debt peonage: being bound until the debt is repaid ; and debt slavery, when the debt is so great ( or labor valued so low ) that the debt will never be repaid – and debtors ' prison.

English philosopher Samuel Alexander's debt to Wordsworth and Meredith is a recent interesting example, as also A. N. Whitehead's understanding of the English romantics, chiefly Shelley and Wordsworth.

Part-time farming gives a measure of security if the regular job is lost, provided the farm is owned free of debt and furnishes enough income to meet fixed expenses and minimum living costs.

When that fear has been removed by faith in Jesus Christ, when we know that He is our Savior, that He has paid our debt with His blood, that He has met the demands of God's justice and thus has turned His wrath away -- when we know that, we have peace with God in our hearts ; ;

By the end of 2010, Armenia ’ s external debt is projected to form about 42 percent of GDP, and 50 percent in 2012.

Economists generally agree that a country is insolvent, if its foreign debt surpasses 50 percent of its GDP.

* 1982 – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World.

For example, a fund may see that there is a substantial difference between U. S. dollar debt and local currency debt of a foreign country, and enter into a series of matching trades ( including currency swaps ) to arbitrage the difference, while simultaneously entering into credit default swaps to protect against country risk and other types of specific risk.

Burundi is heavily dependent on bilateral and multilateral aid, with external debt totalling $ 1. 247 billion ( 1. 247 G $) in 1997.

* Lack of standards for deferred payments: This is related to the absence of a common measure of value, although if the debt is denominated in units of the good that will eventually be used in payment, it is not a problem.

In most EU Member States, debt discharge is conditioned by a partial payment obligation and by a number of requirements concerning the debtor's behaviour.

To declare bankruptcy or for a creditors petition to be lodged, a minimum debt of $ 5, 000 is required.

Bankruptcy is filed when a person or a company becomes insolvent and cannot pay their debts as they become due and if they have at least $ 1, 000 in debt.

It is a court-ordered form of debt enforcement proceedings that applies, in general, to registered commercial entities only.

Some economists contend that the U. S. is borrowing to fund consumption of imports while accumulating unsustainable amounts of debt.

The successful American businessman and investor Warren Buffett was quoted in the Associated Press ( January 20, 2006 ) as saying " The U. S trade deficit is a bigger threat to the domestic economy than either the federal budget deficit or consumer debt and could lead to political turmoil ...

As of 2008, Canada ’ s total government debt burden is the lowest in the G8.

It is one of a series of projects and reforms required by the International Monetary Fund as prerequisites for foreign debt relief.

Its debt burden is considerable, and the country has seen a decline in per capita gross national product over the last 40 years.

Fiscal conservatism is the economic philosophy of prudence in government spending and debt.

Some graphemes may not represent any sound at all ( like the b in English debt ), and often the rules of correspondence between graphemes and phonemes become complex or irregular, particularly as a result of historical sound changes that are not necessarily reflected in spelling.

The outbreak of Spanish influenza in Spain and elsewhere, along with a major economic slowdown in the postwar period, hit Spain particularly hard, and the country went into debt.

Some privatization transactions can be interpreted as a form of a secured loan and are criticized as a " particularly noxious form of governmental debt ".

Saudi Arabia repaid the debt it owed the countries whose forces had defeated Iraq, particularly the United States, in cash ( for example, $ 15 billion to the US alone ) and by purchasing large quantities of weapons from American companies and by supporting the U. S .- led peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.

This was due to the ongoing Yugoslav wars during the 1990s, which had prevented agreement being reached on the disposition of federal assets and liabilities, particularly the national debt.

Despite the extensive intervention of central banks, including partial and total nationalization of major European banks, the crisis of sovereign debt became particularly acute, first in Iceland, though as events of the early 2010s would show, it was not an isolated European example.

He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.

" He nevertheless acknowledged his debt to the New Wave because it created the conditions of production, and particularly the financial conditions, which allowed him to make a film like Hiroshima mon amour, his first feature film.

However, the vast construction costs of the Shinkansen network, particularly the later, less profitable lines often driven more by political interference than actual demand, imposed vast debt servicing costs on JNR that, by 1971, made JNR unprofitable even before depreciation.

Critics of neo-colonialism portray the choice to grant or to refuse granting loans ( particularly those financing otherwise unpayable Third World debt ), especially by international banks such as the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), and the World Bank, as a decisive form of control.

Long after his death, the German General Staff officers of the Interwar and World War II period, particularly General Hans von Seeckt, recognized an intellectual debt to Schlieffen theories during the development of the Blitzkrieg doctrine.

Capital can also be used to effect a restructuring of a company's balance sheet, particularly to reduce the amount of leverage ( or debt ) the company has on its balance sheet.

Complicating matters, particularly where structured finance transactions are concerned, the rating agencies state that their ratings are opinions ( and as such, are protected free speech, granted to them by the " personhood " of corporations ) regarding the likelihood that a given debt security will fail to be serviced over a given period of time, and not an opinion on the volatility of that security and certainly not the wisdom of investing in that security.

* Credit Rating Agencies have made errors of judgment in rating structured products, particularly in assigning AAA ratings to structured debt, which in a large number of cases has subsequently been downgraded or defaulted.

It was reported that Rediffusion's chairman Sir John Spencer Wills felt the ITA owed his company a ' debt of gratitude ' for this, a comment which particularly annoyed the Authority.

He is usually accompanied by bodyguards ( one portrayed by the late Bubba Smith, the other by series painter Ernie Barnes ) and comes across as cool and threatening, but has shown a soft heart on occasion, particularly when he decided not to take an antique locket ( to settle a debt ) that Florida had given to Thelma because it had reminded him of his late mother.

Both the main parties policies seemed completely unrealistic, particularly since the national debt of the country was spiralling out of control.

A 1997 experiment conducted by psychiatrists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine suggested that cumulative nocturnal sleep debt affects daytime sleepiness, particularly on the first, second, sixth, and seventh days of sleep restriction.

Conran acknowledged his debt to German Expressionism, which was particularly evident in the opening scenes in New York City: " Early German cinema was born of just a completely different aesthetic than what we see nowadays.

The permanent income hypothesis suggests that consumers take debt to smooth consumption throughout their lives, borrowing to finance expenditures ( particularly housing and schooling ) earlier in their lives and paying down debt during higher-earning periods.

Theoretical underpinnings aside, personal debt is on the rise, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

The FDCPA itself contains numerous exceptions to the definition of a " debt collector ," particularly after the October 13, 2006, passage of the Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2006.

At the time of the Revolution he surrendered a pension, which had been granted him for the loss of an eye, although he was deeply in debt, particularly on account of his Ruelle foundry, on which 6000 livres were due to him from the state, which he never received.

" We have been concerned for some time about the risks in asset-backed bonds, particularly bonds that are backed by home equity loans, automobile loans or credit card debt ( we own no asset-backed bonds ).