Debtor
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Debtor
1. Respectively, a person who owes a debt and a person to whom the debt is owed.
Usually the debtor has received something from the creditor, in return for which the debtor has promised to make repayment at a later time. If the debtor fails to repay by the deadline, a formal collection process may commence. It is sometimes possible to attach the debtor's property, wages, or bank account as a means of forcing payment. Imprisonment of the debtor is a practice no longer followed. See also garnishment, lien. Source: http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9362386
2. Is one of the account balances in financial statements. Usually it is presented as one of current assets.
In writing ledger accounts, a debtor's amount is written on the debit (Dr) side, as the name suggests. Debtor as it appears in balance sheet connotes same meaning as the accounts receivable (USA accountancy). In other words, a Debtor is someone who owes you money. It is the opposite of a Creditor who is someone to whom you owe money.
In economics a debtor (or a borrower) owes money to a creditor.
If the money owed becomes beyond the possibility of repayment, the debtor faces insolvency or bankruptcy; in the United Kingdom and some states of the United States until the mid-19th century, debtors could be imprisoned in debtor's prisons.
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