Saturday, July 01, 2006

bankruptcy

bankruptcy

破産、倒産、廃業、破綻。
 bank = 作業台
 rupt- = 崩れた、壊された
 -cy = 性質・状態を示す接尾辞

 The Bankruptcy Reform Act.
 破産更生法。

一説によると、イングランドの一般法は
借金を返済できなった商人や職人の
帳簿台、乃至、作業台を、債権者が
壊してしまう風習を認めていたのだという。

 In England, according to some historians,
 it was legal in the common law that
 the creditors would break the workbenches
 of the debtors as a custom who were merchants
 or craftsmen, when they couldn't
 pay back the debts.

 bankruptcy
 [18th c., bankrupt & -cy denoting
 status, state, condition, etc..]
 state of being bankrupt.

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