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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Able to pay the sum which may be required of him; able to discharge an obligation.

Webster; 26 N. H. 527.

RESPONSIO UNIUS NON OMNINO AUDItur The answer of one witness shall not be heard at all.

1 Greenl. Ev § 260.

This is a maxim of the civil law, where everything must be proved by two witnesses. RESTITUTIO IN INTEGRAM (Lat.) In civil law. A restoring parties to the condition they were in before entering into a contract or agreement on account of fraud, infancy, force, honest mistake, etc. Calv. Lex. The going into a cause anew from the beginning. Calv. Lex.