Dyskolos was a prizewinning play in ancient Athens in 317 BC however, the text of the play was lost and it was only recovered and republished in 1957. Paying forward was used as a key plot element in the denouement of a New Comedy play by Menander, Dyskolos (a title which can be translated as "The Grouch"). 2 1999 novel, film and subsequent projects.A related type of transaction, which starts with a gift instead of a loan, is alternative giving. Debt and payments can be monetary or by good deeds. This contract may include the provision that the debtor may repay the debt in kind, lending the same amount to a similarly disadvantaged party once they have the means, and under the same conditions. Specifically, the creditor offers the debtor the option of paying the debt forward by lending it to a third person instead of paying it back to the original creditor. "Pay it forward" is implemented in contract law of loans in the concept of third party beneficiaries.
Robert Heinlein's 1951 novel Between Planets helped popularize the phrase. The concept is old, but the particular phrase may have been coined by Lily Hardy Hammond in her 1916 book In the Garden of Delight. Pay it forward is an expression for describing the beneficiary of a good deed repaying the kindness to others instead of to the original benefactor. For other uses, see Pay it forward (disambiguation).
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