Lat. I give that you may give; I give [you] that you may give [me.] A formula in the civil law , constituting a general division under which those contracts(termed ” innominate “) were classed in which something was given by one party as a consideration for something given by the other. Dig. 19, 4; Id. 19, 5, 5; 2 Bl. Comm. 444.
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