单词 | acceptilation |
释义 | acceptilationn. Chiefly Roman Law. Release from a debt by an acquittance without payment; an instance of this. Formerly also figurative: †free remission of sins (obsolete). ΚΠ c1538 E. Bonner Let. 2 Sept. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1570) II. 1240/1 I neyther am, neyther shall be hable to requite thys your Lordships moste speciall kindnes..vnlesse I shoulde vse that ciuile remedye called in lawe acceptilation. 1606 S. Daniel Queenes Arcadia iii. i. sig. E4v I ouer-whelme My practise too, with darknesse, and strange words,..Condicions, Codicilles, Acceptilations, Actions rescissorie. 1656 Bp. J. Taylor Answer to Bp. of Rochester 50 Our justification which comes by Christ is by imputation and acceptilation, by grace and favour. 1715 Case John Simson 251 Socinians..do Manifestly Found their Justification on their Own works, and Gods Acceptilation. 1752 A. McDouall Inst. Law Scotl. I. i. 490 By the civil law, acceptilation could only dissolve stipulations. 1814 A. C. Campbell tr. H. Grotius Rights of War & Peace I. ii. iv. 301 Acceptilation or the verbal discharge of a debt is founded upon the law of nations. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iii. 241 An obligation is also extinguished by acceptilation, which is as it were an imaginary payment. 1912 R. R. Long Notes Rom. Law 98 As stipulation was the principal formal contract, acceptilation was the principal mode of release. 2000 G. Pinton & M. Diehl tr. G. Vico Universal Right ii. ii. xxxiii. 510 An obligation..had to be transfused into a stipulation which could be canceled, afterward, by acceptilation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1538 |
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