Acquietantia

I. An acquittance

Acquietancia. L. Lat. [from acquietare, q. v.] An acquittance; a release or discharge from the obligation of a debt or contract, (solutio a vinculo debiti, stipulationis, vel obligationis, quo quis alteri tenetur.) Spelman. The instrument itself, (symbolum ipsum,) by which such discharge is effected. Id. Sometimes called litera acquietantiae; a letter of acquittance. Reg. Orig. 150. Exemption or freedom from a service or duty. Consuetudines et servitia de quibus illi nunquam acquietantiam habuerint. Bract. fol. 27 b. Acquietancia de shiris et hundredis; the privilege of being free from suit and service in shires and hundreds. Cowell.