Indefinite Payment
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In Secotch law. Payment without specification. Indefinite payment is where a debtor, owing several debts to one creditor, makes a payment to the creditor, without specifying to which of the debts he means the payment to be applied. See Bell. Iindefinitum equipollet universali. The undefined is equivalent to the whole.
1 Vent. 368.
Indefinitum supplet locum universalis
The undefined or general supplies the place of the whole. Branch, Princ.