This word, used alone, properly signifies one whose estates have been sequestrated, i.e., who has been adjudged bankrupt. But it is often used as a contraction for notour (notorious) bankrupt, i.e., one who has committed an act of bankruptcy, but who has not been adjudged bankrupt. All executions levied on the goods of a debtor within two months before, and four months after, his becoming notour bankrupt, are ranked pari passu, i.e., held as of the same date, and confer a right to an equal share in the proceeds of the goods in execution. Assignments