If one person cannot meet his obligations, then others also become unable to pay. The chain of debtors resulting from the use of money as a means of payment is broken, and a slump at one point is transmitted to all the others, so becoming general. ###>L'enchaînement des personnes tenues à paiement, qui fait de l'argent un moyen de paiement, est brisé, et l'arrêt sur un point se répercute sur tous les autres, devient général.