L. Paul Bremer, Coalition Provisional Authority

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L. Paul Bremer, Coalition Provisional Authority Order 78: Facilitation of Court-Supervised Debt Resolution Procedures

Article 689 of the Law is amended to read as follows:
“ (1) A composition shall be valid in regard to the ordinary
creditors even when they have not participated in the proceedings
or did not approve the composition.
(2) A composition shall have no effect with respect to
claims secured with a mortgage or that are otherwise privileged,
except where the creditors with such claims agree on an
individual basis to be subject to the composition.”
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L. Paul Bremer, Coalition Provisional Authority Order 78: Facilitation of Court-Supervised Debt Resolution Procedures

The “state of union of creditors” is the stage of the
bankruptcy proceedings where the property of the bankrupt is
disposed of, with the proceeds used to repay the creditors to the
extent possible.
Article 563. The purpose of this Part of the Commercial Code is
to establish judicial proceedings by which a trader and his
creditors may resolve the trader’s indebtedness in a collective,
transparent, and realistic manner, when the trader no longer can
pay debts when they come due.
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L. Paul Bremer, Coalition Provisional Authority Order 78: Facilitation of Court-Supervised Debt Resolution Procedures

A “general privileged creditor” is a creditor that has a
preference in payment to the debtor’s property that is not subject
to a mortgage or special privilege. The general privileged
creditors include those described in sub-paragraphs (a) - (c) of
paragraph 2 of Article 708.
(2) An “ordinary creditor” is a creditor whose claim is
neither secured by mortgage nor otherwise privileged.
(3) The “body of creditors” consists of the general
privileged and ordinary creditors.
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