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Latin. Agreement not to sue. Civil law. An agreement made, between a creditor and his debtor that the former will not demand, from the latter the debt due. By this agreement the debtor is freed from his obligation. This is not unlike the covenant not to sue, of the common law.

An agreement not to seek ; i.e., an agreement by which the creditor in an obligation binds himself not to seek or to enforce its fulfillment; forming one of the well known exceptions of the civil law, and thence imported into the law of Scotland. This agreement might either be absolute ...