Note 42 — Chapter XV · 39 On Treaties and on Engagements made by Delegates, Exceeding their Power.

"Personal creditors are in the Roman law called Chirographarii, because they commonly have some bond or note of hand for the debt. And where there are several such creditors, if the debtor's estate is not sufficient to satisfy them all, each has his share assigned in proportion to the largeness of the debt, without any regard to the time, when it was contracted. But in mortgages it was different, the debt of longest standing was to be first satisfied."—Barbeyrac.