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PAYMENT Definition & Legal Meaning

Definition & Citations:

The performance of a duty, promise, or obligation, or discharge of a debt or liability, by the delivery of money or other value. Also the money or other thing so delivered. Brady v. Wasson, 6 Ileisk. (Tenn.) 135; Bloodworth v. Jacobs, 2 La. Ann. 24; Root v. Kelley, 39 Misc. Rep. 530, 80 N. Y. Supp. 4S2; Moulton v. Robison, 27 N. H. 554; Clay v. Lakenan, 101 Mo. App. 563, 14 S. W. 301; Claflin v. Continental Works, 85 PAYMENT 8S4

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