Compromise - Indian Laws - General

Compromise As per Black s Law Dictionary, Seventh Edition, as follows: Compromise: 1. An agreement between two or more persons to settle matters in dispute between them. 2. A debtor s partial payment coupled with the creditor s promise not to claim the rest of the amount due or claimed. In Stroud s Judicial Dictionary of words and phrases (Sixth Edition), compromise is defined as follows: Compromise: Compromise , is a mutual promise of two or more parties there are at controversy (Terms de la Ley). A compromise takes place when there is a question of doubt, and the parties agree not to try it out but to settle it between themselves by a give-and-take arrangement . I understand compromise (Legal Aid and Advice to mean an agreement to settle an action or threatened action. It may be an agreement to apply for a consent judgment.... Or it may be an agreement that the dispute shall be settled on certain terms.... Or it may be an agreement to avoid a threatened action . SUDHEER KUMAR VERSUS MANAKKANDI M.K. KUNHIRAMAN AND ORS. - 2007 (11) TMI 695 - KERALA HIGH COURT