Insolvency

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner; as, the insolvency of an Estate.

II. Insolvency ·noun The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay his debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business; as, a merchant's insolvency.