Definition of Accord

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Accord
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    n. A satisfaction agreed upon between the party injuring and the party injured which, when performed, is a bsr to all actions upon this account. Kromer v. Heim, 75 N. Y. 576, 31 Am. Rep. 491. An agreement to accept, in extinction of an obligation, something different from or less than that to which the person agreeing to accept is entitled. Civ. Code CaL § 1521; Civ. Code Dak. § 859.

  • Accord
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    v. In practice. To agree or concur, as one judge with another. "I accord." Eyre, C. J., 12 Mod. 7. "The rest accorded." 7 Mod. 361.