quittance
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In the first place, the quittance for our board and lodging.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
We will acknowledge your title as good, and we will demand of you quittance for the above sum, which you will grant us as king of France.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Frederic Austin Ogg
Of course Herr Simon will require from these heirs a receipt for the sum handed them, and a quittance of all further claims.
From Quicksands by Adolph Streckfuss
It was only by being a valuable object, and commonly only by being a medium of exchange, that the money could have become a means of legal quittance in the first place.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
But "legal tender" money is not always an adequate means of quittance.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
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