Example sentences of "debt owing to " in BNC.

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1 The use of the contract army , however , placed the king in the position of debtor to the military captains , most of whom were members of the titled nobility , and the sums owed by the crown to individual nobles might often be very substantial : in 1386 , for instance , the Earl of Northumberland reached agreement with the Exchequer whereby in return for £700 he discharged the king of all debts owing to the earl ‘ from any time past until the making of this indenture ’ , and the earl was discharged of the debts he incurred when he held the office of Admiral .
2 Section 4 of the Business Names Act 1985 requires that sole traders who operate their business in any name other than their own must display their own name clearly on all business letters , invoices , receipts , written orders for goods , etc. to be supplied to the business , and written demands for payment of debts owing to the business .
3 The elder Blackwell 's religious commitment was at least as strong as his son 's ; he seems to have died in some poverty , having previously calculated the debts owing to himself at nearly £36,000 ( Bodleian MS Rawl .
4 He had already acquired some ex-episcopal lands back in 1647–8 , in settlement of earlier debts owing to him on the public faith .
5 In December 1936 Lance Henly , the Club 's forbearing Secretary for 15 years , resigned through ill-health , and the Brewery settled the £149 debt owing to him for 20 months unpaid expenses .
6 He gets the goods and you get a debt owing to you .
7 If goods are sold and payment postponed until a later date , we still have ten pounds of value in goods going out of the business , and we have a debtor who represents ten pounds worth of debt owing to us .
8 They were made parties to these proceedings but , since the debt owing to the building society now exceeds the value of the property and since they can be in no better position than the building society , they have taken no part in the proceedings .
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