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Solvit

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

(Lat. from solvere, q. v.) He paid. 10 East, 206. SOLVIT AD DIEM (Lat. he paid at the day).

In pleading. The name of a plea to an action on a bond, or other obligation to pay money, by which the defendant pleads that he paid the money on the day it was due. See 1 Strange, 652; Rep. temp. Hardw. 133; Comyn, Dig. "Pleader" (2 W 29). This plea ought to conclude with an averment, and not to the country. 1 Sid. 215; 12 Johns. (N. Y.) 253. See 2 Phil. Ev. 92; Coxe (N. J.) 467. SOLVIT POST DIEM (Lat. he paid after the day).

In pleading. The name of a special plea in bar to an action of debt on a bond, by which the defendant asserts that he paid the money after the day it became due. 1 Chit. PI. 480, 555; 2 Phil. Ev. 93. SOLVITUR ADHUC SOCIETAS ETIAM morte socli. A partnership is moreover dissolved by the death of a partner. Inst. 3. 26. 5; Dig. 17. 2. SOLVITUR EO LIGAMINE QUO LIGAtur. In the same manner that a thing is bound it is unloosed. 4 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 582.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

He paid.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat He paid; paid. 10 East, 206.

— Solvit ad diem. He paid at the day. The technical name of the plea, in an action of debt on bond, that the defendant paid the money on the day mentioned in the condition. 1 Archb. N. P. 220, 221.

— Solvit ante diem. A plea that the money was paid before the day appointed.

— Solvit post diem. He paid after the day. The plea in an action of debt on bond that the defendant paid the money after the day named for the payment, and before the commencement of the suit. 1 Archb. N. P. 222.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I. He paid; paid. Solvit ad diem: he paid at the day, — the name of a plea, in an action on a bond. Solvit post diem: he paid after the day, — the name of a plea in an action on a bond.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

He paid. See Dies, Solvit.