Dictionary - Definition of ACCEPTILATION


Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.[Websters].
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)		Top

Date "Acceptilation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Etymology:Acceptilation \Ac*cep`ti*la"tion\, noun. [Latin expression acceptilatio entry of debt collected, acquittance, from present participle of accipere (Compare to Accept) latio carrying, from latus, past participle of ferre to carry: compare to the French expression acceptilation.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: ACCEPTILATION

Domain	Definition
Law	ACCEPTILATION, contracts. In the civil law, is a release made by a creditor to his debtor of his debt, without receiving any consideration. Ayl. 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. de Jurisp. h.t. Acceptilation may be defined verborum conceptio qua creditor debitori, quod debet, acceptum fert; or, a certain arrangement of words by which on the question of the debtor, the creditor, wishing to dissolve the obligation, answers that he admits as received, what in fact, he has not received. The acceptilation is an imaginary payment. Dig. 46, 4, 1 and 19; Dig. 2, 14, 27, 9; Inst. 3, 30, 1. (references)
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Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.[Websters].
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)		Top

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Date "ACCEPTILATION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Specialty Definition: ACCEPTILATION

Domain	Definition
Law	ACCEPTILATION, contracts. In the civil law, is a release made by a creditor to his debtor of his debt, without receiving any consideration. Ayl. 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. de Jurisp. h.t. Acceptilation may be defined verborum conceptio qua creditor debitori, quod debet, acceptum fert; or, a certain arrangement of words by which on the question of the debtor, the creditor, wishing to dissolve the obligation, answers that he admits as received, what in fact, he has not received. The acceptilation is an imaginary payment. Dig. 46, 4, 1 and 19; Dig. 2, 14, 27, 9; Inst. 3, 30, 1. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.		Top