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Defined in 3 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In the civil law. Contracts having a proper or peculiar name and form, and which were divided into four kinds, expressive of the ways in which they were formed, viz.:
(1) Real, which arose ex re, from something done;
(2) verbal, ex verbis, from something said;
(3) literal, ex Uteris, from something written; and
(4) consensual, ex consensu, from something agreed to. Calvin.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

In the civil law. Contracts having a proper or peculiar name and form, which were divided into four kinds, expressive of the ways in which they were formed: real, which arose, ex re, from something done; verbal, ex verbis, from something said; literal, ex Uteris, from something written; consensual, ex consensu, from something agreed to.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In the civillaw. Contracts having a proper or peculiar name and form, and which were divided into four kinds, expressive of the ways in which they were formed, viz.: (1) Real, which arose ex ve, from something done; (2) verbal, ex verbis, from something said; (3) literal, ex literis, from something written; and (4) consensual, ex consensu, from something agreed to. Calvin.