Agreamentum

Aggreamentum.

L. Lat. An agreement.

Spelman.

This Latin form of the word agreement has led to the fanciful etymology adopted by Plowden, Cowell, and other writers, which makes it to be compounded of aggregatio and mentium, and so to signify a joining together of two or more minds in any thing done, or to be done. Cowell, voc.

Agreement. Plowd. 17, arg.

The error of this obviously consists in confounding mentum, a common termination, used (as the English and French ment,) in forming nouns from verbs, with mentium, the genitive plural of mens, mind, and is well exposed by Spelman. The phrase aggregatio mentium, however, though absurd in point of etymology, is expressive as a definition, and in that light has sometimes been adopted by high authority.

Com. Dig. Agreement, A, 1. 3 Johns. R. 535.

See Testamentum.

See Testamentum.