- Acquitment
- Acquitment Ac*quit"ment (-ment), n. [Cf. OF. aquitement.] Acquittal. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
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Acquitment
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acquitment — index acquittal, discharge (payment), satisfaction (discharge of debt) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
acquitment — noun Acquittal … Wiktionary
acquitment — See absolution … Black's law dictionary
acquitment — See absolution … Black's law dictionary
acquitment — noun ( s) Etymology: French acquittement, from acquitter to acquit (from Old French aquiter) + ment obsolete : acquittal … Useful english dictionary
acquittal — ac·quit·tal /ə kwit əl/ n 1: release or discharge from debt or other liability 2: a setting free or deliverance from the charge of an offense by verdict of a jury, judgment of a court, or other legal process see also implied acquittal; judgment… … Law dictionary
discharge — dis·charge 1 /dis chärj, dis ˌchärj/ vt 1: to release from an obligation: as a: to relieve of a duty under an instrument (as a contract or a negotiable instrument); also: to render (an instrument) no longer enforceable a formal instrument...may… … Law dictionary
satisfaction — sat·is·fac·tion n 1 a: the act or fact of satisfying b: execution of an accord by performance of the substituted obligation often used in the phrase accord and satisfaction compare accord 3, transaction 3 c … Law dictionary
acquittal — Synonyms and related words: accordance, acquitment, acquittance, adherence, amortization, amortizement, binder, care, carrying out, cash, cash payment, clearance, compliance, condemnation, conformance, conformity, debt service, decision, defrayal … Moby Thesaurus
amortization — Synonyms and related words: abalienation, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, alienation, amortizement, assignation, assignment, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, binder, cash, cash payment, cession, clearance, conferment, conferral,… … Moby Thesaurus
