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Latin: In the civil law. A pact. An agreement or convention without specific name, and without consideration, which, however, might, in its nature, produce a civil obligation. Heinecc Elem. lib. 3, tit. 14, S 775. In Roman law. With some exceptions, those agreements that the law does not directly enforce, but which it recognizes only as a valid ground of defense, were called … [Read more...] about PACTUM

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civil law. An agreement by which a person appointed to his creditor, a certain day, or a certain time, at which he promised to pay; or it maybe defined, simply. an agreement by which a person promises a creditor to pay him. 2. When a person by this pact promises his own creditor to pay him, there arises a new obligation which does not destroy the former by which he was already … [Read more...] about PACTUM CONSTITUTAE PECUNIAE

Lat. Let him be freed or discharged.Paei sunt in ami me eontraria vis at injuria. Co. Litt 101. Violence and injury are the things chiefly hostile to peace. … [Read more...] about PACEATUR

civil law. An agreement made, between a creditor and his debtor that the former will not demand, from the latter the debt due. By this agreement the debtor is freed from his obligation. This is not unlike the covenant not to sue, of the common law. … [Read more...] about PACTUM DE NON PETANDO