agent and patien

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agent and patien - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  AGENT AND PATIENT. This phrase is used to indicate the state of a person who
  is required to do a thing, and is at the same time the person to whom it is
  done; as, when a man is indebted to another, and he appoints him his
  executor, the latter is required to pay the debt in his capacity of
  executor, and entitled to receive it in his own right, he is then agent and
  patient. Termes de la ley.