Satisfy

To supply with enough of whatever is required; to free from doubt; to convince; to pay. _ Satins est petere fontes qaam sectari rivulos, I. It is better to seek the fountains than to follow the streams.

1. To supply fully, with what is required; to free from doubt or uncertainty; to set the mind at rest; to convince. " To satisfy fully " is to exclude all doubts, reasonable or otherwise.* " Entirely satisfied " implies a firm and thorough assent of the mind and judgment to the truth of a, proposition. This may exist notwithstanding a possibility that the fact may be otherwise.' Satisfactory. As applied to evidence [q. v.), that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond reasonable doubt.** An action cannot be maintained, for work and labor, upon an agreement to construct a book case " to the satisfaction " of the defendant, by proof that the case was made according to the terms of the agreement, without also proving that it was accepted by the defendant;' and the same is true as to a contract to make a " satisfactory suit of clothes." ' An agreement to deliver certain notes or " make satisfaction" binds the promisor, for failure to deliver the notes, to make such compensation as the law provides.* A contract to employ one as agent for a year " if he fill the place satisfactorily " may be terminated by 1 L. sanus, sound in mind. ' Den V. Van Cleve, 5 N. J. L. 661 (1819), Kirkpatrick, Chief Justice. L. satU, enough; facere, to make. < States. Sears, 1 Phil. L. 148 (ISei'). IPeople V. Phipps, 39 Cal. 335 (1870). 1 Greenl. Ev. § 2. ' Mc Carran t'. Mc Nulty, 7 (3ray, 141 (1856). the employer when, in his judgment, the agent fails to meet that requirement. " A contract to make a bust with which the defendant ought to be satisfied is one thing; an undei;taldng to malce one with which she ivill be satisfied is quite another thing." = The same ruling was made with respect to a portrait not to be paid for " if imsatisfactory." 3 Wliere S. refused to accept an elevator, costing $3,300, which had been warranted satisfactory in every respect, it was held, reversing the lower court, that, provided he acted in good faith, S. was the sole judge whether the elevator was satisfactory.* If one orders goods (milk-pans) agreeing to pay for them if satisfied, *' he must act honestly, and in accordance with the reasonable expectations of the seller as implied from the contract, its subject-matter, and surrounding circumstances. This dissatisfaction must be actual, not feigned; real, not pretended. " ' An agreement that the purchaser of an article, sold with warranty, may rescind the sale if the article is not satisfactory, does not preclude him from retaining it, and recouping damages for breach of the warranty, in an action for the price."* ' 2. To comply fully with a demand; to extinguish, as, by payment or performance. " Satisfied " referring to a note or bond imports that the instrument is paid." Satisfaction. (1) The settlement or extinguishment of a demand; also, the recordentry to that effect. The demand may be of the amount of a judgment, mortgage, or other lien, or of a 'claim not evidenced by a record; but the reference is frequently to matters of record by way of distinction. Accord and satisfaction. See Accoed. Satisfaction piece. An acknowledgment in writing that an incumbrance has been satisfied. (3) In equity, the donation of a thing, with the intention, expressed or implied, that it is to be an extinguishment of some existing right or claim..8 Arises, as a matter of presumption, where a man, being under an.obligation to do an act (as, to pay money), does that by will which may be considered as a performance or satisfaction of the act, the thing done being ejusdem generis with that which he en- 1 Tyler v. Ames, 6 N. T. Supr. 280 (1873). s Zaleski 11. aark, 44 Conn. 224 (1876). s Gibson v. Cranage, 39 Mich. 49 (1878). * Smgerly v. Tljayer, 108 Pa. 396 (188S), oases; 25 Am. Law Eeg. 18-31 (1886), cases; Seeley u-Welles, 120 Pa. 74 (1888), as to a machine: 27 Am. Law Eeg. 578- 2 (1838), cases. 5 Daggett V. Johnson, 49 Vt. 349 (1877); 43 id. B28. Shupe V. Collender, Sup. Ct. Conn. (1888); 15 Atl. E. 405, cases. gaged to perform. The presumption m'ay be rebutted by circumstances. The thing so done must be a substitute or equivalent for the contract, and not intended as a fulfillment of it. Ina "performance" the thing is done strictly in pursuance and in fulfillment of the contract. The question may arise where there is a portion, secured by a marriage settlement or given by a will, and an advancement is afterward made to the donee; and in case of a legacy to a creditor. , See Ademption; Advancement; Election, 3.

In technical use, generally means to comply actually and fully with a demand; to extinguish, by payment or performance. Satisfaction: the extinguishment of a demand, particularly of a judgment or lien, by payment, or of a claim by performance. In equity, the term satisfaction is largely used of extinguishment of a demand by something given, either in whole or in part, as a substitute and equivalent for something else, and not (as in performance) something that may be construed as the identical thing word imports a discharge or extinguishment of a debt, by payment and acceptance of something less in value than the sum due. Under an agreement to deliver certain notes or " make satisfaction," the satisfaction required is legal damages, being the value of the notes, if genuine, to be proved by the plaintiff. Moore v. Fleming, 34 Ala. 491. Wliere sales by the East India Company were made subject to a regulation that anj' buyer not making good the remainder of his purchase-money on or before the day limited for such payment should forfeit the deposit, and should be rendered incapable of buying again at any future sale, " until he shall have given satisfaction to the court of directors," it was held that the term satisfaction must be construed to mean pecuniary compensation for the non-performance of a buyer's agreement to pay on the appointed day. Eagleton v. East India Company, 3 Bos. Sf P. 55. The phrase " fully satisfied," applied to mental state, implies an exclusion of all doubts, reasonable or other. State v. Sears, PkiU. L. 146. Satisfaction piece. A brief, formal acknowledgment, in writing, made by a judgment creditor or his attorney, or by a mortgagee, setting forth that the judgment or mortgage has been satisfied; i.e., paid or otherwise extinguished. According to very general practice, this paper authorizes the officer having charge of the record to enter or mark upon the record that the incumbrance is satisfied, which extinguishes it for all purposes. Satisfied term. A term of years in lands, created for a temporary purpose, which is executed or performed before the period named has expired, so that the object of the term is answered, the use for it is extinguished. It has been for some time the practice of English conveyancers, in draughting provisions in deeds affecting real estate, for the purpose of raising money for temporary objfcts (as, in mamage settlements, where it is desired to raise portions for younger children, or to apply money for the maintenance and education of children out of real estate intended to be settled), to demise such estate to trustees for two hnndred, five hundred, or other fictitious and imaginary term of years, for this purpose; and, subject thereto, the term was to be " in trust to attend the inheriever the object of the term might be, had been fulfilled, the land was to be enjoyed beneficially, as if the term had never been created. But the legal estate in the term of years was in the trustees; and, if it were disposed of by them to a bona fide purchaser, for valuable consideration, and without notice of the claim of those who would otherwise be entitled thereto, such purchaser would have the priority, during the remainder, of the term of two hundred or five hundred years, over the eldest son iutended to be benefited by the settlement. To avoid this result, provision was generally made for the " cesser of the term," when its purposes should be accomplished. By an act passed in 1845 (Stat. 8 & 9 Vict. ch. 112), known as the satisfied terms act, this cesser of a term the purpose of which has been accomplished is enacted once for all; and terms which shall thenceforth become attendant upon the inheritance, either by express declaration or by construction of law, are to cease and determine. This, in effect, abolishes outstanding terms. See 1 Steph. Com. 380-382; Wms. R. P. Pt. IV. ch. 1.