Constitutum

Lat. [from constituere, to undertake or engage.] In the civil law. A promise or undertaking, (called pactum praetorium,) without any preceding stipulation, to pay money due either by the promisor or another for whom he became surety.

Dig. 13. 5. Heinecc.

Elem. Jur. Civ. lib.

4, tit. 6, § 1168.

The action which lay upon such a promise was called Actio de pecunia constituta.

Id. Inst. 4. 6. 9.