quittance
Example Sentences
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Very good, then, Master Tibbald: if you will pay the Council that sum, its secretary shall make you out a note of quittance.'
From Merry-Garden and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
We were well quit of George Glen and his gang, though the price of the quittance was heavy.
From The Watchers A Novel by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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 Anderson, Benjamin M.
"Well, then, it shall be yours, if you give up all claim to the hand of Meenie Ritchie, and give me in writing an entire quittance on that score."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
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 Ogg, Frederic Austin
