Composition

An agreement between debtor and creditor, by which the latter agrees to discharge the former oa payment of a certain sum.* See C S. Dig. dt Supplement, Composition. In English ecclesiastical law. ^ An agreement, (otherwise called a real composition,) made between the owner of lands, and a parson or vicar, with the consent of the ordinary and the patron, that such lands shall, for the future, be discharged from payment of tithes by reason of some land, or other real recompense given to the parson, in lieu and satisfaction thereof.

2 BL Com. 28. Meg. Orig, 38 b. 2 Inst. 490. 2 Wcoddea, Lect 67, 68. 3 5/«pA. C<w». 129.