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Spolium

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In the civil and common law. A thing violently or unlawfully taken from another.

1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 261, note.

SPONDEO (Lat.) In the civil law. I undertake; I engage.

Inst. 3. 16. 1.

SP0NDES7 SPONDEO (Lat.) Do you undertake? I do undertake. The most common form of verbal stipulation in the Roman law.

Inst. 3. 16. 1.