Debt

A conditional transfer of Ownership that comes due on a stated date. The debtor consented to it, so honest debt is voluntary. Title passes as the property reaches the debtor's hands: what the debtor holds when the date arrives belongs to the creditor. A debtor who holds it and refuses to deliver commits Theft, and Restitution follows. A debtor who cannot deliver has taken nothing and is no thief. The creditor may then reach only what the parties agreed -- collateral, or later property as the debtor acquires it. Where they agreed nothing further, the claim ends there. Nothing here licenses a prison, a term of forced labor, or a debt without end. A debt imposed without consent -- by authority, vote, or claimed need -- is not debt but Coercion, and no one owes it.