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Solvency

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The ability of an individual to pay his or her debts as they mature in the normal and ordinary course of business, or the financial condition of owning property of sufficient value to discharge all of one's debts.


solvency n. 1) having sufficient funds or other assets to pay debts. 2) having more assets than liabilities (debts). The contrast is "insolvency," which may be a basis for filing a petition in bankruptcy. (See: insolvency, bankruptcy)


SOLVENCY. The state of a person who is able to pay all his debts; the opposite of insolvency. (q.v.)



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