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 \nWhat is Insolveney?We naturally look to the courts of lawfor an authoritative definition.Bnt we find,to our surprise,thatthe judges have long been engnged in wrestling with the problemof definition without having reached either complete or harmonious results.Thus Insolveney has been defined as inability topay debts as they accrue.(1)And yet a man whose assets farexceed his liabilities may by mere accident be temporarily unableto pay an aceruing debt.The disnbility must be more than acci-dental and temporary.There must be to constitute insolency,pot only an excess of liabilities over available assets,but such adependence upons the special indulgence of creditors as renders fur-ther continuance in business without forbearance on their part1(Byer vs.Poppenhusen,43,N.Y.,75)  \n2  \nimpossible.(8)  \nFinancial dependence is a necessary incident of the creditsysten on which all modern traffie is based.If the defnitions ofinsolvency vary,it is because of the varying degrees of this elementof dependence,with reference to which the courts have beencalled upon at different times to determine the correspondingrights and duties of debtor and creditor.  \nThese varying degrees of finaneial dependence furnish the basisof what for our purposes may be taken as a convenient elassification,for there are three distinct stages of progresstoward absoluteloss ofthe debtor's independence:I.Indebtedness II.EmbarrassmentIII.Insolvency.  \nI find this claseification convenient because the duties mosteommonly neglected (and it is only such duties that I intend toemphasize and discus)may in each distinct stage of this progressbe ranged under the head of a correspondingly distinct and specialvirtue,Thus:  \nIndebtedness—(which renders insolvency poseible)—shouldappeal at ","cbCaibU3YTgBfxik","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibU3YTgBfxik","pdf",1418636,22,"English","# “The ethics of insolvency”\n## I. 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