receipt

A receipt is the written acknowledgment of the receipt of money or a thing of value, without containing any affirmative obligation upon either party to it; a mere admission of a fact, in writing. Krutz v. Craig, 53 Ind. 574. A receipt may be defined to be such a written acknowledgment by one person of his having received money from another as will be prima facie evidence of that fact in a court of law. Kegg v. State, lo Ohio, 75. Also the act or transaction of accepting or taking anything delivered.

In old practice. Admission of a party to defend a suit, as of a wlfe on default of the husband in certain cases. Litt § 668; Co.. Litt. 352b.

A taking or an accepting of a thing delivered; an acknowledgment in writing of having received money, goods or other valuable consideration; an acquittance.

1. Tabing or accepting a thing delivered, usually money, but may be any personalty. Receipts: moneys received. See Earnings. 2. Such written acknowledgment by one person of his having received money from another as will be prima facie evidence of that fact in a court of law.* An acknowledgment of payment or delivery. May contain a contract to perform something in relation to the thing delivered.' Receipt in full. A payment of money, or a delivery of other property, in complete discharge of a demand. Receipt on account. A payment or delivery of money or other property in part fulfillment of a contract. Simple receipt. A bare acknowledgment of the payment of money, or of the delivery of personal property of any kind, to the person who signs the receipt. a receipt in full operates to defeat any further claim for a debt, unless it was obtained under such circumstances of mistake, accident, surprise, or fraud as would authorize a court of equity to set it aside.' A receipt which simply acknowledges a payment or delivery is ijrima facie, not conclusive, evidence of the 1 [3 Bl. Com. 310. ! Fain v. Cornett, 25 Ga. 186 (1K)8). '[3 Steph. Com. 539; People o. Page, 1 Idaho, 194 » Kegg V. State, 10 Ohio, 79 (1840). Grimke, J. fact. But if it contains the terms of a contract, it cannot be contradicted or varied by parol," q. v. Receiptor. 1. He who receives any thing delivered by another; he who gives a writing certifying that he has received money or personal property. See Acceptance, 1; Deed, 2; Dischakge; Estoppel; Interim; Warehouseman. 3. A person, other than the executiondebtor, who gives a receipt for property attached, engaging, as surety to the officer who makes the levy, that the property will be forthcoming to answer any final judgment the plaintiff may recover.^

v. Court, 11. One side of the contracts of sale; the actual receipt of the possession; as distinguished from transfer of title, not necessarily of the goods.

1. The act or transaction of accepting or taking any thing delivered; and, in the plural, moneys Code, § 1825, relating to the compensation of administrators, therein used, means pecuniary assets, and does not embrace assets which are not money or currency. Wright V. Willierson, 41 Ala. 267. 2. A written acknowledgment of the payment of money or delivery of chattels; the certificate of the party receiving a delivery that it has been made. What is called a simple receipt, merely acknowledges delivery. A receipt on account or in full contains clauses stipulating that the payment shall be applied to a specified demand, or that it is accepted in discharge of the demand. Properly, a receipt is the written acknowledgment of the receipt of money, or a thing of value, without containing any affirmative obligation upon either party to it, — a mere admission of a fact in writing; but, when a receipt contains stipulations which amount to a contract, it becomes a contract, and must be governed by the law of contracts, and can be avoided only by fraud, mistake, failure of consideration, rescission, or some way known to the law. A receipt may be defined to be such a written acknowledgment by one person of his liaving received inoney from another as will be prima facie evidence of tliat fact in a court of law. An indorsement on a note in the handwriting of the maker, without any signature, but made in the presence, with the concurrence, and by the direction of the payee, is a receipt. Kegg v. State, 10 Ohio, 75.