Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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giving in payment

Civil law. The act of discharging a debt by giving something to the creditor (with the creditor's consent) other than what was originally called for. 0 The phrase is a translation of the French dation en paiement and derives from the Roman datio in solutum. See DATION EN PAIEMENT. Cf. ACCORD AND SATISFACTION.