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Webster 1913 Edition


Assets

As′sets

,
Noun.
pl.
[OF.
asez
enough, F.
assez
, fr. L.
ad
+
satis
, akin to Gr. [GREEK] enough, Goth.
saps
full. Cf.
Assai
,
Satisfy
.]
1.
(Law)
(a)
Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; – called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend.
Story.
Blackstone.
(b)
Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts.
2.
The entire property of all sorts, belonging to a person, a corporation, or an estate;
as, the
assets
of a merchant or a trading association
; – opposed to
liabilities
.
☞ In balancing accounts the assets are put on the Cr. side and the debts on the Dr. side.

Webster 1828 Edition


Assets

ASSETS'

,
Noun.
plu.
[L. sat, satis, enough.]
Goods or estate of a deceased person, sufficient to pay the debts of the deceased. But the word sufficient, though expressing the original signification of assets, is not with us necessary to the definition. In present usage, assets are the money, goods or estate of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies. Assets are real or personal; real assets are lands which descend to the heir, subject to the fulfillment of the obligations of the ancestor; personal assets are the money or goods of the deceased, or debts due to him, which come into the hands of the executor or administrator, or which he is bound to collect and convert into money.

Definition 2024


assets

assets

See also: ässets

English

Noun

assets

  1. plural of asset

Noun

assets

  1. (finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts.
    His assets are much greater than his liabilities.
  2. (law) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
  3. Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts.

Translations


Danish

Noun

assets n

  1. genitive singular definite of as

Swedish

Noun

assets

  1. definite genitive singular of ass