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Acceptilatio

Acceptilatio, the verbal extinction of a verbal contract, with a declaration that the debt has been paid when it has not, or the acceptance of something merely nominal in satisfaction of a verbal contract. In order to enter into acceptilatio the formal sentence was used in Civil Law: 'quod ego tibi promisi, habesue acceptum? habeo.'-Sand Just. See STIPULATION....