In Solidum

or IN SOLIDO (Lat.) In civil law. For the whole; as a whole. An obligation or contract is said to be in solido or in solidum when each is liable for the whole, but so that a payment by one is payment for all; i. e., it is a joint and several contract. Possession is said to be in solidum when it is exclusive. "Duo in solidum precwrio habere non magis possunt, quam duo in solidum vi possidere aut clam; nam, neque justae neque injustae possessiones duae concurrere possunt." Savigny, lib.

3, § 11.

IN SOLO (Lat.) In the soil or ground. In solo alieno, in another's ground. In solo propria, in one's own ground.

2 Staph. Comm. 20.

IN SPECIE (Lat.) In the same form; e. g., a ship is said to no longer exist in specie when she no longer exists as a ship, but as a mere congeries of planks.

8 Barn. & C. 561; Arnould, Ins. 1012.

To decree a thing in specie is to decree the performance of that thing specifically. IN STATU QUO (Lat.) In the same situation as; in the same condition as.

Interpretanda sunt

In contracts, when the question is what was agreed upon, the terms are to be interpreted against the party offering them.

Dig. 45. 1. 38. 18.

Chancellor Kent remarks that the true principle appears to be "to give the contract the sense in which the person making the promise believes the other party to have accepted it, if he in fact did so understand and accept it."

2 Kent, Comm. (7th Ed.) 721; 2 Day (Conn.) 281; 1 Duer, Ins. 159, 160; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 534; Dig. 45. 1. 38. § 18.

IN STIPULATIONIBUS ID TEMPUS spectatur quo contrahimus. In agreements, refefence is had to the time at which they were made.

Dig. 50. 17. 144. 1.