from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
JUICIO DE CONCURSO. This term is Spanish, and is used in Louisiana. It is
the name of an action brought for the purpose of making a distribution of an
insolvent's estate. It differs from all other actions in this important
particular, that all the parties to it except the insolvent, are at once
plaintiffs and defendant. Each creditor is plaintiff against the failing
debtor, to recover the amount due by him, and against the co-creditors, to
diminish the amount they demand from his estate, and each is, of necessity,
defendant against the opposition made by the other creditors against his
demand. From the peculiar situation in which the parties are thus placed,
many distinct and separate suits arise, and are decided during the pendancy
of the main one, by the insolvent in which they originate. 4 N. S. 601, 3
Harr. Cond. Lo. R. 409.