Discharge

A setting free; a clearing, acquittance, release or delivery. The instrument by which a person is discharged from a debt or obligation, or an encumbrance is cancelled; as the discharge of an insolvent, the discharge of a mortgage, &c.

See Charge.

In maritime law

The unlading or unlivery of a cargo from a vessel.

Story, J., 2 Sumner's R. 589, 600.

In equity practice

A statement of disbursements, and an offset of counter claims, brought in and filed on accounting before a master in chancery, and which follows the charge in the order of the proceedings, though not properly a defence to it.

Hoffman's Mast. in Chanc. 38.

See Charge and discharge. To DISCHARGE, [from L. Lat. discargare.] To set free or release; as to discharge a person from arrest or imprisonment, or from the obligation of his debts. To dismiss or send away; as to discharge a jury from further attendance in court. To dissolve, cancel or put an end to; as to discharge a contract, a mortgage, &c. To unload; as to discharge a vessel; to take out; as to discharge a cargo.

Webster.

See Discharge.

See Discharge.