On the way, they contracted debts, and in exchange for permission to enter the Ottoman Empire they were forced to give the Turkish authorities financial guarantees in the name of Jerusalem's Jewish community.

He made friends of radical Criollos, played cards, contracted debts, and neglected his religious offices.

Unfortunately, economy was never her favorite virtue; she contracted debts--paid them--thus her money passed from hand to hand like a weaver's shuttle, and quickly disappeared.

I received letters from my late neighborhood, informing me that the good old lady had secretly contracted several debts in the name of Theresa, to whom these became known, but of which she had never mentioned to me a word.

Accordingly to Houbraken, while in Lyon, he contracted considerable debts, and married his (older) landlady to free himself of them.

In 1836 he returned to Vienna and in 1838, after being in Milan for the coronation of Emperor Ferdinand, he went to France and then to England where he contracted debts.

He contracted large debts in order to reclaim the throne, which he managed to following Alexandru Iliaş' rule.

The Duke began to contract debts everywhere.

As Jay Cohen has pointed out, after the promulgation of these two statutes all insolvents who had contracted debts by non-fraudulent means could discharge their liability through personal bankruptcy.

On the contrary, he gained a creditable record as a student, although it is admitted that he contracted debts and had "an ungovernable passion for card-playing."