Composition

An agreement between a debtor and creditor by which of certain as in pounding or putting together; a mixture; in the law of copyright, an inventing or putting together of the parts of a literary, dramatic or musical work. In English ecclesiastical law. An agreement, otherwise called a real composition, between a land-owner and the parson, with consent of the ordinary and the patron, that the land shall be discharged from payment of tithes by reason of some real recompense given in lieu thereof. In old European law. A sum of money paid, among the early barbarous nalious of Europe, as satisfaction for an injury, either to the person offended, or to his relatives.