Confusion
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In Roman and French law. A mode of extinguishing a debt, by the concurrence in the sume person of two qualities which mutually destroy one another. This may occur in several ways, as where the creditor becomes the heir of the debtor, ar the debtor the heir of the erediter, or either accedes to the title of the other by any other anode of transfer. This tern, as used in the civil law, is synonymous with “merger,” ag used in the common law. It arises where two titles to the same property unite in the same person.
1 Woods, 182.