Lat I give that you may do; I give [you] that you may do or make[for me.] A formula in the civil law , under which those contracts were classed in whichone party gave or agreed to give money, in consideration the other party did orperformed certain work. Dig. 19, 5, 5; 2 Bl. Comm. 444.In this and the foregoing phrase, the conjunction “ut” is not to be taken as the technicalmeans of expressing a consideration. In the Roman usage, this word imported amodus, that is, a qualification ; while a consideration (causa) was more aptly expressedby the word “quia.”
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