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 and conveyances and securities given to creditors after, or within sixty days before, notour bankruptcy, are voidable by prior creditors, nndei
the Act 1686, c, 5, or at common law if fraudulent. (See also Conjunct and Confident.)

Source: Kinnear, Digest of House of Lords cases (1865), pg. 348.