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Payment, by each of several jointly liable, of a share in a loss suffered or an amount paid by one of their number for the common benefit.

ate, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.

The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as, a long credit or a short credit.

Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.

oney paid by a person who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity. Abbott. -- Dead ground (Mining), the portion of a vein in which there is no ore. -- Dead hand, a hand that can not alienate, as of a person civilly dead. "Serfs held in dead hand." Mo…

f debentures. By the terms of much debenture stock the holders are not entitled to demand payment until the winding up of the company or default in payment; in the winding up of the company or default in payment; in the case of railway debentures, they cannot demand payment of the principal, and the debtor company cann…

To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc. For the discharge of his expenses, and defraying his cost, he allowed him . . . four times as much. Usher.

The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.

Payment of charges.

To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to. [Obs.] If he had The present money to discharge the Jew. Shak.

To deny, as a claim; to refuse. The payment was irregularly made, if not disclaimed. Milman.

to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn.

To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement.

r, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc.

An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange. I thought it most prudent to deter the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan. A. Hamilton.

An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft.

To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon. You may draw on me for the expenses of your journey. Jay.

An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.

To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately. Hath she sent so soon to dun Swift.