Merger
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
rights. Rights are said to be merged when the same person who is bound to pay is also entitled to receive. This is more properly called a confusion of rights, or extinguishment. When there is a confusion of rights and the debtor and creditor becomes the same person, there can be no right to put in exertion; but there is an immediate merger.
2 Ves. Jr. 264.
Example, a man becomes indebted to a woman in'a sum of money, and afterwards marries her, there is immediately a confusion of rights, and the debt is merged or extinguished.