Merger

rights. Rights are said to be merged when the same person who is bound to pay is also entitled to receive. This is more properly called a confusion of rights, or extinguishment. When there is a confusion of rights and the debtor and creditor becomes the same person, there can be no right to put in exertion; but there is an immediate merger. 2 Ves. Jr. 264. Example, a man becomes indebted to a woman in'a sum of money, and afterwards marries her, there is immediately a confusion of rights, and the debt is merged or extinguished.