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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In the civil and Scotch law. A release made by a creditor to his debtor of his debt, without receiving any consideration. AyL Pand. tit.

26, p. 570.

It is a species of donation, but not subject to the forms of the latter, and is valid unless in fraud of creditors. Merl. Repert. The verbal extinction of a verbal contract, with a declaration that the debt has been paid when it has not; or the acceptance of something merely imaginary in satisfaction of a verbal contract Sandars' Just Inst (5th Ed.) 386.