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Debitum






Debitum

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

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Obligation
In its general and most extensive sense, obligation is synony- mous with duty. In a more technical meaning, it is a tie which binds us to pay or to do something agreeably to the laws and customs of the country in which the obligation is made.

Debt
Whatever one owes. A sum of money due by certain and express agreement.



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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 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.

Debitum sine brevi
Debt without a writ or declaration. Abbreviated d.s.b.



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English law. That portion of the personal estate of a deceased man which remained after his wife and children had received their reasonable parts from his estate

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

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

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.

Debitum sine brevi
Debt without a writ or declaration. Abbreviated d.s.b.

Debt
Whatever one owes. A sum of money due by certain and express agreement.

Debtee
One to whom a debt is due a creditor, as, debtee executor.

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