Debitor
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from debere, to owe.] A debtor. Debitor intelligatur is a quo invito exigi pecunia potest; a debtor may be understood to be one from whom money may be exacted against his will.
Dig. 50. 16. 108.
Debitor non praesumitur donare
A debtor is not presumed to make a gift. Whatever disposition he makes of his property is supposed to be in satisfaction of his debts.
1 Kames' Equity, 212.
Where a debtor gives money or goods, or grants bond to his creditor, the natural presumption is that he means to get free from his obligation, and not to make a present, unless donation be expressed. Ersk. Inst. b.
3, tit. 3, § 93.