Indefinite Payment
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
That which a debtor who owes several debts to a creditor makes without making an appropriation. In that case the creditor has a right to make such appropriation. INDEFINITUM AEQUIPOLLET UNIVERsali. The undefined is equivalent to the whole. 1 Vent. 368. INDEFINITUM SUPPLET LOCUM UNN versalls. The undefined supplies the place of the whole. 4 Coke, 77.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
That which a debtor who owes several debts to a creditor makes without making an appropriation: in that case the creditor has a right to make such appropriation.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In Secotch law. Payment without specification. Indefinite payment is where a debtor, owing several debts to one creditor, makes a payment to the creditor, without specifying to which of the debts he means the payment to be applied. See Bell. Iindefinitum equipollet universali. The undefined is equivalent to the whole. 1 Vent. 368. Indefinitum supplet locum universalis. The undefined or general supplies the place of the whole. Branch, Princ.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
contracts, is that which a debtor who, owes several debts to a creditor, makes without making an appropriation; (q- v.) in that case the creditor has a right to make such appropriation. i