{"id":7901,"date":"2017-11-16T05:34:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T05:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=7901"},"modified":"2017-12-22T06:58:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T06:58:49","slug":"colorable-claim-a-claim-that-appears-legally-well-founded-but-may-actually-be-false-or-invalid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=7901","title":{"rendered":"Colorable Claim – a claim that appears legally well founded, but may actually be false or invalid"},"content":{"rendered":"

colorable<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Apparently valid or legitimate, but actually false or questionable.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

colorable claim<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
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1. A claim that superficially is legally well-founded, but that may actually be invalid.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2. In bankruptcy law, a groundless claim of right to property by a person in possession of the property against trustee in bankruptcy’s claim for possession.\u00a0<\/strong>[1]<\/span><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0a claim that appears to be valid but is in fact invalid.<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A claim that is legitimate and that may reasonably be asserted, given the facts presented and the current law<\/strong> (or a reasonable and logical extension or modification of the current law)<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2.. A claim in which the debtor and property holder are, as a matter of law, not adverse. * An example of a colorable claim is one made by a person holding property as an agent or bailee of the bankrupt.\u00a0<\/strong>[3]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]:\u00a0\u00a0Ballantine’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Legal Assistant Edition<\/span><\/a><\/em>
\nby Jack Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Doctored<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]: Black’s Law Dictionary\u00a0Second Edition Online,\u00a0<\/em>“COLORABLE CLAIIM”:\u00a0http:\/\/thelawdictionary.org\/colorable-claim\/<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[3]:\u00a0Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a>Deluxe Tenth Edition<\/a><\/em> by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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