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A Receipt for Intereft due on Bond.

ECEIVED this

day of

fum of fix dollars, in full for one

D. 100 due to me on the

of Mr. A. B. the

year's intereft of

day of

laft, on bond

By me, C. D.

from the faid A. B. I fay received,

D. 6

NOTE. Befides thefe receipts to be taken on payment of money due on bonds, it is proper to have each payment mentioned on the back of the obligation.

An Acquittance for a Legacy.

RECEIVED this

cutor of the laft will and teftament of C. D. late of, &c. deceased, the fum of one hundred dollars, in full of a legacy bequeathed to me in and by the last will and teftament of the faid C. D. I fay received in full of all demands,

By me, E. F.

D. 100

Receipt for a Creditor's Proportion of an infolv

ECEIVED this

ent Eftate.
day of

of Mr. A. B. adminiftrator of the goods and chattels, rights or credits of C. D. late of, &c. deceased, the fum of eighteen dollars and fifty cents, in full for my fhare or proportion of what remains in his hands on a settlement of faid eftate, according, to the distribution of the fame, as ordered by the Hon. W. G. Efq. Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of By me, E. F.

D. 18 50

An Acquittance to an Adminiftrator, on Payment of a Debt due from the Inteftate

ECEIVED this

day of

of Mr. A. B.

R admininiftrator of the goods and chattels, rights and

credits of C. D. late of, &c. deceafed, the fum of one hundred and five dollars and fifty cents, in full of a debt owing me by the faid C. D. in his life time, for household goods, by me fold him. I fay received in full of all demands,

By me, E. F

D. 105 50

A Receipt proper to be taken upon a Perfon's giv ing a Promiffory Note for a Book Debt.

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ECEIVED this

day of

of Mr. A. B. a

months af

promiffory note for the fum of fifty-four dollars and twenty-five cents, payable to me or order, ter date; which fum when paid, is in full of all demands. I fay received, By me, E. F.

D. 54 25

An Acquittance for the Purchase Money on the executing of a Conveyance, to be endorfed on the Back of the Deed.

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within named K. L. the fum of one thousand dollars, being the full confideration money within mentioned to be paid to me. I fay received,

By me, E. F.

A Receipt for Writings entrusted in a Perfon's

RECEIVED this

Hands.

day of

of L. M. of,

&c. four feveral deeds or conveyances; one of them purporting to be a leafe, of, &c. and made between, &c. another of them to be an affignment of the faid leafe and made between, &c. and the other two to be a deed from, &c. For which feveral deeds or writings I hereby promife to be accountable, and to re-deliver the fame to the faid L. M. on demand. In witnefs, &c.

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OF RELEASES..

RELEASE is a deed or inftrument whereby a man gives up or difcharges the right or action he hath or claimeth against another, or his lands, &c. and is ufually. made by the words have remifed, releafed and quitclaimed. Jacob's Dict.

Releases are of two kinds, viz. a release of lands, (called leafe and releafe) and of good and chattels; and a release of action, whether real, perfonal or mixed.

No right paffeth by a release, but the right which the releafer had at the time of the release made.

right, the release is void.

Debts, legacies by a release of a legacy, and may be releafed before they become due.

If he has no

other duties,

In a re

But in

A release of all manner of actions difcharges all real, perfonal and mixed actions, and bars an appeal. But a releafe of all actions, real and perfonal, is no bar, in an appeal of death. For fuch a release bars only civil actions. leafe of all actions, caufes of actions are released. a fubmiffion of all actions to arbitrament, caufes of actions are not contained. A release of all actions will not dif. charge execution, or bar one to take out execution. release of all fuits will be a bar to an exccuton. of all actions will not discharge any thing, for which the re

But a

A releafe

leafor had no caufe of action at the time of the releafe made.

A release of all quarrels amounts to a releafe of all actions.

A release of all dues will release personal actions and executions; but it will not bar a writ of account. A releafe in full of all accounts, shall be extended only to an account.

A releafe of all rights in any lands or tenements does release and discharge all manner of rights of actions and entry.

By a release of all covenants, a covenant not broken may be released.

A release of all demands or claims is the best release of all, and the most effectual word to bar actions, appeals, rights of entry into lands, titles, "conditions, covenants, rents, commons, debts, duties, colligations, contracts, &c. &c.

Wood's Inft. A releafe to one obligor, where feveral are bound in a bond, is a difcharge to the others. Lit. Rep. 191. Cro. Eliz. 648.

41.

2 Sid. Co. Lit. 232. A release from a landlord to one joint tenant fhall extend to both. Hol. 66. Co. Lit. 232.

If two commit a trespass the releafe to one trefpaffor will difcharge the other. 1 Inft. 232. 2. Rol. Abr. 410. Heb. 66. Bro Releafe, pl. 94.

Where a debtor is made executor, or a creditor, being a woman, marries the debtor, the debts in both thefe cafes are releafed in law. Brownl. 76. Co. Char. 373. Co. Lit. 264. b. Rol. Rep. 934, 940. Plowd. 184. b. 186. a. Hob. 10. Wentw. 45. Yelv. 160. Mo. 236,855. Fo. 345. Hut. 17. 128. And in the firft of these, the executor may retain goods of the teftator fufficient to fatisfy him his debt. Where an obligor is administrator of the goods of the obligee, this will not amount to a releafe in law. Sid. 79. Leon. 90, 91. Rol. Rep. 934. Swinb. 300, 301, 325. Salk. 303, 327. 3 Salk. 163. 8. Rep. 136.

If a rent be behind twenty years, and a release given for the laft year due, all the rent in arrear is prefumed in law to be fatisfied. Trial per pais, edit. 1739. p. 418. Law of evid. edit. 1739, p. 196. Sid. 13. Gilberts law of evid. edit. 1760, p 160, 161. 12 Vin. abr. p. 129. [A. b. 60}

pl. 2.

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Releafe of Lands.

[See Quitclaim Deed.]

A general Releafe.

NOW all men by these presents, That I, A.B. of, &c. have remifed, releafed, and forever quitclaimed, for me, my heirs, executors and administrators, and by these prefents do remife, release, and forever quitclaim unto ̊C. D. of, &c. his heirs, executors and adminiftrators, all and all manner of action and actions, cause and causes of actions, fuits, bills, bonds, writings, obligations, debts, dues, duties, reckonings, accounts fum and fums of money, judgments, executions, extents, quarrels, controverfies, trefpaffes, damages and demands whatfoever, both at law and in equity, or otherwife howfoever, which against him the faid C. D. I ever had, now have, or which I, my heirs, executors or administrators, can, fhall or may have, claim, challenge or demand, for or by reafon or means of any act, matter, caufe or thing, from the beginning of the world, to the day of the date of thefe prefents. In witness, . Sealed, &c.

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A Release of a Trust.

NOW all men by thefe prefents, That whereas in and by certain indentures of, &c. bearing date on or about, &c. and made or mentioned to be made between C. D. of, &c of the one part, and me, A. B. of, &c. of the other part, the faid C. D for the confiderations therein mentioned, did grant, &c. In which faid indenture of, &c. I the faid A. B. do hereby declare, that my name was only ufed in trust, for E. F. of, &c. Now know ye, that I the faid A. B. in difcharge of the truft in me repofed as aforefaid, and at the request of the faid E. F have remifed, released, furrendered,. affigned, transferred and fet over and by these prefents do for me, my executors and administrators, freely and abfolutely remife, release, furrender, affign, transfer, and fet over unto the fail E. F. his executors, adminiftrators and affigns, all the estate, right, title, intereft, benefit, truft, claim and de