DESPERATE. Of which there is no hope.
2. This term is used frequently, in making an inventory of a decedent's
effects, when a debt is considered so bad that there is no hope of
recovering it. It is then called a desperate debt, and, if it be so
returned, it will be prima facie, considered as desperate. See Toll. Ex. 248
2 Williams, Ex. 644; 1 Chit. Pr. 580. See Sperate.