Cambium
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Change, exchange. Applied in the civil law to exchange of lands, as well as of money or debts.
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Cambium reale or manuale was the term generally used to denote the technical common-law exchange of lauds; cambium locale, mercantile, or trajectitium, was used to designate the modern mercantile contract of exchange, whereby a man agrees, In consideration of a sum of money paid him in one place, to pay a like sum in another place. Pothier, de Change, n.
12; Story, Bills § 2.