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Accord

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

Black's Law Dictionary

n. A satisfaction agreed upon between the party injuring and the party injured which, when performed, is a bsr to all actions upon this account.

Kromer v. Heim, 75 N. Y. 576, 31 Am. Rep. 491.

An agreement to accept, in extinction of an obligation, something different from or less than that to which the person agreeing to accept is entitled.

Civ. Code CaL § 1521; Civ. Code Dak. § 859. v.

In practice

To agree or concur, as one judge with another. "I accord." Eyre, C. J., 12 Mod. 7. "The rest accorded."

7 Mod. 361.