Note 380 — Book X.

Existente termino. This is a palpably false reading—it should be, elapso termino, the term being expired, an expression familiar to Glanville. This suggestion is sanctioned by the Reg. Maj. “the day being bygone,” (L. 3. c. 3.)—by the expression of the text ad terminum in the sentence immediately preceding—by the words of the Writ in the next chapter, “a term which is past”—and, lastly, by a passage in the Eighth Chapter of this Book, where our Author expressly lays it down, that, before the time fixed for payment, the Creditor cannot claim the Debt. Yet is the reading existente termino preserved in Mr. Houard’s Edition of Glanville, an Edition frequently, but not always, more correct than any of those printed in this Country.