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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.