Like foreclosure, an assignment for the benefit of creditors (ABC) is a creature of state law. ABCs have long been popular in a few states, most notably California and Illinois, but they are beginning to gain traction in other states as a less expensive alternative to bankruptcy.

...he walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge... At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.

[…] much Siculo-Arabic poetry is clearly lost, perhaps irremediably […]

Sophia was also a horticulturist, a healer, a historian, and became something of a legend in her own lifetime.