Debitor creditoris est debitor creditori creditoris

The debtor of the creditor is also the debtor of the creditor's creditor. "This process of attachment went not only against those in the actual possession of himself, his factors or agents, but also against those in the hands of his debtors, since the maxim taken from the Justinian code was 'Debitor creditoris,' " etc. Atkins v Fiber Disintegrating Co. (US) 18 Wall 272, 21 L Ed 841, 845.