Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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pactum de constatuto
. [Latin "an agreement from a contract or compact"] An agreement under which one person will pay another's debt in exchange for which the second person agrees not to sue the first on some claim that has arisen. ( The pactum de constituto was one of the five types of adpromission in Roman law. See ADPROMISSION.