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A handshake with a receipt, where value crosses the table and so does risk.
means An exchange of money, goods, or data between parties, treated as a single complete unit.
from From Latin transactio, the act of driving a deal through to its end — trans (across) plus agere (to drive or do), so literally a thing done across parties.
Database lawEither it all happens or none of it does.
ACID testAtomic, consistent, isolated, durable — the four database commandments.
Legal senseCourt records its docket as transactions too.