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Confusion, a mode of extinguishing a debt, in the French law, by the concurrence in the same person of two qualities which mutually destroy one another. This may occur in several ways, as where the creditor becomes the heir of the debtor, or the debtor the heir of the creditor, or either accedes to the title of the other by any other mode of transfer, Pothier on Oblig. By Evans, n. 505-609.