Compensatio
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In the civil law. Compensation, or set-off. A proceeding resembling a set-off in the common law, being a claim on the part of the defendant to have an amount due to him from the plaintiff deducted from his demand.
Dig. 16. 2; Inst. 4. 6. 30. 39; 3 Bl. Comm. 305; 1 Kames, Eq. 395.