Pactum Commissorium

An agree- son who will undertake to recover it. In ment of forfeiture. See Lex Commissoria. general attorneys should abstain from making such a contract: jet it is not unlawful PACTUM CO NSTITUT /E PECUNI/E at common law. See Champerty. (Lut.). In Civil Law. An agreement by which a person appointed to his creditor a PAIN FORTE ET DURE. See Peine certain day, or a certain time, at which he Forte et Dure. promised to pay; or it may be defined sim- PAINS AND PENALTIES. See Bill of ply an agreement by which a person prom- Pains and Penalties. ises a creditor to pay him. PAINTING. A likeness, image, or scene When a person by this pact promises his depicted with paints. Cent. Diet. The term own creditor to pay him, there arises a new does not necessarily mean anything upon obligation, which does not destroy the for- which painting has been done by a workmer by which he was already bound, but man, but rather something of value as a which is accessory to it; and by this mul- painting and something on which skill has tiplicity of obligations the right of the cred- been bestowed in producing it; 3 Exoh. Div. itor is strengthened. Pothier, Obi. pt. 2, c. 121. Whether certain articles fall within the 0, s. 9. description of paintings as used in a statute There Is a striking conformity between the pactum is a question of fact for a jury; id. const it utat p*'cunuv, ns* nlmvo dofinod, find our in- As to copyright in paintings, see Copydebitatus assumpsit. The pactum constitutes pccun icc was a promise to pay a subsisting debt, right. whether natural or H\il, made in sm h a manner as PAIRING-OFF. A system in both not to extinguish the preceding debt, and introduced vogue by the prador to obviate some formal diflieulties. in parliament and in legislative bodies in Tho action of indebitatus assumpsit was brought this country, whereby a member agrees with upon a promise for the payment of a debt; it m not a member on the opposite side that ‘they subject to the wager of law and other technical difficulties o£ (ho regular action of debt; but by such shall both be absent from voting during a promise the right to tho action of debt was not ex- given time, or upon a particular question. tinguished nor varied, 4 Co. 91, 95. See 1 H. Bla. It is said to have originated in the house of B. r >0, 8B0, Brooke, Abr. Aition s ur la Case (pi. «, C9, commons in Cromwell's time. In the House 72); 4 B. & B. 295; 1 Chitty, PI. 89. of Commons, it may be arranged by the