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Acquintance, means a document by which one is discharged from a debt or other obligation, a receipt or release indications payment in full, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 24.

Acquittance is a discharge in writing of a sum of money or duty which ought to be paid or done; as where a man is bound to pay money on a bond, rent reserved upon a lease, etc., and the party to whom it is due, on receipt thereof, gives a writing under his hand witnessing that he is paid, this will be such a discharge in Law that he cannot demand and recover the sum or duty again, if the acquittance be produced, Termes de la Ley. As to forgery of an acquittance. [see (English) Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27), s. 2(2) (a), s. 18 (1)]