Do Ut Facias

Lat. 1 give that you may do; I give [you] that yon’ may do or make [for me.} A formula in the civil law, under which those contracts were classed in which one party geve or agreed to give money, in consideration the other party did or performed certain work. Dig. 19, 5, 5; 2 Bi. Comm. 444. In this and the foregoing phrase, the conjunction “ut” isnot to be taken as the technical means of expressing acousideration. In the Roman usage, this word imported a modus, that is, a qualification; while a considoration (causa) was more aptiy expressed by the word “qiia,”