Debita Laicorum
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Lat.
In old English law
Debts of the laity, or of lay persons. Debts recoverable in the civil courts wereanciently so called.
Crabb, Ning. Law, 107.
Debita sequuntur personam debitoris
Debts follow the person of the debtor; that is, they lave no locality, and may be eollected wherever the debtor can be found.
2 Kent, Comm. 429; Story, Confi. Laws, § 362.