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111Quittance — Quit tance (kw[i^]t tans), n. [OE. quitaunce, OF. quitance, F. quittance. See {Quit}, v. t.] 1. Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance. [1913 Webster] Omittance is no quittance. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Recompense; return; repayment.… …
112quittance — noun Date: 14th century 1. a. discharge from a debt or an obligation b. a document evidencing quittance 2. recompense, requital …
113setoff — noun Date: 1621 1. something that is set off against another thing: a. decoration, ornament b. compensation, counterbalance 2. the reduction or discharge of a debt or claim by setting against it a distinct claim in favor of the debtor or party… …
114work out — verb Date: 1534 transitive verb 1. a. to bring about by labor and exertion < work out your own salvation Philippians 2:12 (Authorized Version) > b. to solve (as a problem) by a process of reasoning or calculation c. to devise, arrange, or achieve …
115Praxiteles — (Ancient Greek: Πραξιτέλης, English IPAEng|prækˈsɪtɨliːz) of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life size statue.… …
116Francis Ysidro Edgeworth — (8 February 1845 ndash; 13 February 1926) made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s. From 1891 onward he was the editor of a leading academic journal in economics and his own writings in economics were… …
117Tracing (law) — Tracing is a legal process, not a remedy, by which a claimant demonstrates what has happened to his/her property, identifies its proceeds and those persons who have handled or received them, and asks the court to award a proprietary claim against …
118liquidation — /lik wi day sheuhn/, n. 1. the process of realizing upon assets and of discharging liabilities in concluding the affairs of a business, estate, etc. 2. the process of converting securities or commodities into cash. 3. the state of being… …
119satisfy — satisfiable, adj. satisfier, n. satisfyingly, adv. satisfyingness, n. /sat is fuy /, v., satisfied, satisfying. v.t. 1. to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty… …
120cessio bonorum — ▪ Roman law (Latin: “a cession of goods”), in Roman law, a voluntary surrender of goods by a debtor to his creditors. It did not amount to a discharge of the debt unless the property ceded was sufficient for the purpose, but it secured the… …
