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Debet






Debet

Latin. He owes; from debere: de habere, to have a thing of some one. Debet et detinet - He owes and with holds.

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Habere
To have. This word is used in composition.

Debet
Latin. He owes; from debere: de habere, to have a thing of some one. Debet et detinet - He owes and with holds.

Detinet
He detains.



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Debenture
A certificate given, in pursuance of law, by the collector of a port of entry, for a certain sum, due by the United States, payable at a time therein mentioned, to an importer for drawhack of duties on merchandise imported and exported by him, provided the duties arising on the importation of the said merchandise shall have been discharged prior to the time aforesaid.

Debet et detinet
Pleading. He owes and detains. In an action of.debt, the form of the writ is either in the debet and detinet, that is, it states that the defendant owes and unjustly detains the debt or thing in question, it is so brought between the original contracting parties; or, it is in the detinet only; that is, that the defendant unjustly detains from the plaintiff the debt or thing for which the action is brought; this is the form in in action by an executor, because the debt or duty is not due to him, but it is unjustly detained from him.



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Debenture
A certificate given, in pursuance of law, by the collector of a port of entry, for a certain sum, due by the United States, payable at a time therein mentioned, to an importer for drawhack of duties on merchandise imported and exported by him, provided the duties arising on the importation of the said merchandise shall have been discharged prior to the time aforesaid.

Debet

Debet et detinet
Pleading. He owes and detains. In an action of.debt, the form of the writ is either in the debet and detinet, that is, it states that the defendant owes and unjustly detains the debt or thing in question, it is so brought between the original contracting parties; or, it is in the detinet only; that is, that the defendant unjustly detains from the plaintiff the debt or thing for which the action is brought; this is the form in in action by an executor, because the debt or duty is not due to him, but it is unjustly detained from him.

Debit
Accounts, commerce. A term used in book-keeping, to express the left-hand page of the ledger, to which are carried all the articles supplied or paid on the subject of an account, or that are charged to that account. It also signifies the balance of an account.

Debitum
A thing due or owing; an obligation; a debt, q.v.

Debitum in praesenti, solvendum in futuro
A debt due at present, to be paid in future.

Debitum in pręsenti, solvendum in futuro
An obligation existing in the present, dischargeable in the future.

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