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Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

A transaction whereby a debtor is discharged from liability to his original creditor by contracting a new obligation in favor of a new creditor by order of the original creditor.

See 136 N. Y. 152, 32 Am. St. Rep. 704.