Mixed Contract
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In civil law
A contract in which one of the parties confers a benefit on the other, and requires of the latter something of less value than what he has given; as, a legacy charged with some thing of less value than the legacy itself.
Poth. Obi. note 12.