Latin quote · Money
Tantundem eiusdem generis
“The same amount of the same kind.”
Legal term
Translation
What does “Tantundem eiusdem generis” mean?
Tantundem eiusdem generis translates as “The same amount of the same kind.”
In a loan of money or goods like grain, the borrower does not return the very same items but an equal quantity of the same kind. It describes how fungible things are repaid.
Origin
The story behind it
A phrase from the Roman law of mutuum, the loan for consumption, and still used to explain loans of money and fungibles.
When to use it
How to use “Tantundem eiusdem generis”
An apt line for a banking-law lecture on what it means to borrow money.
- Latin
- Tantundem eiusdem generis
- English
- The same amount of the same kind.
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- Legal term
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- Legal Latin
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- Money
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