Receipt

1.

Tabing or accepting a thing delivered, usually money, but may be any personalty. Receipts: moneys received.

See Earnings.

2.

Such written acknowledgment by one person of his having received money from another as will be prima facie evidence of that fact in a court of law.* An acknowledgment of payment or delivery. May contain a contract to perform something in relation to the thing delivered.' Receipt in full. A payment of money, or a delivery of other property, in complete discharge of a demand. Receipt on account. A payment or delivery of money or other property in part fulfillment of a contract.

Simple receipt

A bare acknowledgment of the payment of money, or of the delivery of personal property of any kind, to the person who signs the receipt. a receipt in full operates to defeat any further claim for a debt, unless it was obtained under such circumstances of mistake, accident, surprise, or fraud as would authorize a court of equity to set it aside.' A receipt which simply acknowledges a payment or delivery is ijrima facie, not conclusive, evidence of the 1 [3 Bl. Com. 310. ! Fain v. Cornett, 25 Ga. 186 (1K)8). '[3 Steph. Com. 539; People o. Page, 1 Idaho, 194 » Kegg V. State, 10 Ohio, 79 (1840). Grimke, J. fact. But if it contains the terms of a contract, it cannot be contradicted or varied by parol," q. v. Receiptor. 1. He who receives any thing delivered by another; he who gives a writing certifying that he has received money or personal property. See Acceptance, 1; Deed, 2; Dischakge; Estoppel; Interim; Warehouseman. 3. A person, other than the executiondebtor, who gives a receipt for property attached, engaging, as surety to the officer who makes the levy, that the property will be forthcoming to answer any final judgment the plaintiff may recover.^