Cambium

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Change; exchange. Applied in the civil law to exchange of lands, as well as of money or debts. Du Cange. Cambium reale or manuale was the term generally used to denote the technical common-law exchange of lands; 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. Poth. de Change, note 12; Story, Bills, I 2 et seq. CAMERA (Law Lat.; Lat. camera, a vault or arched roof; an upper gallery; Spanish, camara). In Did European Law, A chamber; an apartment in a dwelling house. A treasure chamber, or treasury; a chamber with a vaulted roof, for the keeping of the public treasure. A private treasury; a place for keeping

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

(Civil Law) Exchange; exchange of lands.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Change, exchange. Applied in the civil law to exchange of lands, as well as of money or debts. Du Cange. 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.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In the civil law. Change or exchange. A term applied indifferently to the exchange of land, money or debts. Cambium reale or manuale was the term generally used to denote the technical common-law exchange of lands; 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 pnid him in one place, to pay a like sum in another place. Poth. de Change, n. 12; Story, Bills, § 2, et seq.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In the civil law. Change or exchange, A term applied indifferently to the exchange of land, money, or debts. Cambium reale or munvate was the term generally used to denote the technical common-law exchange of lands; cambium locale, mercantile, or trajectitium, was used to designate the modern mercantile contract of exchange, whereby a man aprees, in consideration of a sum of money paid him in one place, to pay a like sum in another place. Poth. de Change, n.12; Story, Bills, § 2, et seq.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

JSscambium. L.Lat. [Ital. cambio.^ In old European law. Change or exchange; {permutatio.) Molloy l)e Jur. Mar. 309, 313. Toions. PI. 68. See JSscambium, Ckambium. A bill of exchange. Per cambium intelligimus litteras solemni formula scriptas, quibuM quis alterum wlvi jubet proesentanti certam pecunim summam, sibijam num^eratam, suoque nomine satisfactionem promittit; by exchange we mean a formal letter in writing, by which one orders another to pay to him who presents it, a certain sum of money, already received in value, and promises satisfaction in his own name. Heinec. Mem. Jur. Camb. c. 1, § 9. Story on Bills, § 4. •