Promutuum
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A quasi contract, koown in the civil law, by which he who receives a certain sum of money, or a certain quantity of fungible things, which have been paid to him through mistake, contracts toward the payer the obligation of restoring him as much. It resembles the contract of mutuum, (q. v.), because in both a sum of money or some fungible things are required; there must be a transfer of the property ceived must be returned. There are, however, some important differences.
See Bouvier.