Agent And Patient
Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A phrase indicating the state of a person who is required to do a thing, and is at the same time the person to whom it is done; as, when a man is indebted to another, and he appoints him his executor, the latter is required to pay the debt in his capacity of executor, and entitled to receive it in his own right; he is then agent and patient. Termes de la Ley. AGENTES ET CONSENTIENTES PARI poena plectentur. Acting and consenting parties are liable to the same punishment. 5 Coke, 80. AGER (Lat.)
In civil law. A field; land generally. Used like the word acre in the old English law, denoting a measure of undetermined and variable value. Spelman; Du Cange; 3 Kent, Comm. 441, AGGER (Lat.)
In the civil law. A dam, bank, or mound. Code, 9. 38; Towns. PI. 48.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A phrase indicating the state of a person who is required to do a thing, and is at the same time the person to whom it is done; as, when a man is indebted to another, and he appoints him his executor, the latter is required to pay the debt in his capacity of executor, and entitled to receive it in his own right; he is then agent and patient. Termes de la Ley. AGER (Lat). In Civil Law. A field; land genei'ally. A portion of land enclosed by definite boundaries. Used like the word acre in the old English law, denoting a measure of undetermined and variable value. Spelman, Gloss.; Du Cange; 3 Kent 411.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A phrase indicating the state of a person who is required to do a thing, and is at the same time the person to whom it is done.
Defined under Agent in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A phrase Indicating the state of a person who is required to do a thing, and is at the same time tle person to whom it is done, Agentes et consentientes pari poena plectentur. Acting and consenting parties are liable to the same punishment. 5 Coke, $0.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
A person is so called when both the doer of a thing and he to whom it is done. General agent: an agent authorized to perform a general class of acts, or employed as practising a certain trade or profession. Agentes et consentientes pari poena plectentur: those who act and those who consent are liable to the same punishment.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
In old law. Agent and subject; doer and receiver.* Where the same person was the doer of a thing, and the party to whom it was done, he was termed agent and patient; as where an executor retained out of the goods of the deceased in his hands, the amount of a debt due to himself, he being both the party to whom the debt was due and the party paying it.* Termes de la ley.