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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In civil law

A release made by a creditor to his debtor of his debt, without receiving any consideration. Ayliflfe, 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. Merlin, Repert.