| Abstract from DBPedia | Debt is an obligation that requires one party, the debtor, to pay money or other agreed-upon value to another party, the creditor. Debt is a deferred payment, or series of payments, which differentiates it from an immediate purchase. The debt may be owed by sovereign state or country, local government, company, or an individual. Commercial debt is generally subject to contractual terms regarding the amount and timing of repayments of and interest. Loans, bonds, notes, and mortgages are all types of debt. In financial accounting, debt is a type of financial transaction, as distinct from equity. The term can also be used metaphorically to cover moral obligations and other interactions not based on a monetary value. For example, in Western cultures, a person who has been helped by a second person is sometimes said to owe a "debt of gratitude" to the second person.債務（さいむ、英: debt）とは、ある者が他の者に対して一定の行為をすること又はしないこと（不作為）を内容とする義務をいう。義務を負う者を債務者、権利を有するものを債権者と呼ぶ。債権を債務者からみた場合の表現。複数の人が、同じ債務を負担すると連帯債務となる。 日常用語としては、借金と同義に用いられることがある。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Debt) |
