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Commutative Contract

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

In Civil Law. One in which each of the contracting parties gives and receives an equivalent. The contract of sale is of; The seller gives the thing Bold, and n price, which is the equivalent i gives the price, and receives the thing which is the equivalent. Such contract usually distributed into foully: Do ut des (I give that you may give); Facio ut facias (I do that you may do); Facia ut des (I do that you may give); Do ut (I give that you may do). Pothier, Obi. n.

13. See La. Civ. Code, art 17G1.