Consignation

From co Tisignare, to seal up. In Scotch Law. The payment of money into the hands of a third party, when the creditor refuses to accept of it. The person to whom the money is given is tenned the "consignatory." Bell, Diet. In French Law. A deposit which a debtor makes of the thing that he owes into the hands of a third person, and under the authority of a court of justice. It is not properly a payment, but it is equivalent to a payment, and extinguishes the debt no less than if an actual pajonent had been made. Code, 8. 43. 9; Poth. ObL pt. 3, c. 1, art. S.

In Scotch law. The payment of money into the hands of a third party, when the creditor refuses to accept of it. The person to whom the money is given is termed the "consignatory." Bell.

In French law. A deposit which a debtor makes of the thing that he owes into the hands of a third person, and under the authority of a court of Justice. 1 Poth. Obi. 536; Weld v. Hadley, 1 N. H. 304.

In Scots laic. a third person when the

contracts, in the civil law, is a deposit which a debtor makes of the thing that he owes into the hands of a third person, and under the authority of a court of justice. Poth. Oblig. P..3, c. 1, art. 8. Generally the consignation is made with a public officer; it is very similar to our practice of paying money into court. The term to consign, or consignation, is derived from the latin consignare, which signifies to seal, for it was formerly the practice to seal up the money thus received in a bag or x.