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..... nt.- (1) the act of paying. (2) Pay; requital; recompense." The Law Lexicon by P. Ramanatha Aiyar, 2nd Edn. Reprint, inter alia, states: "payment is defined to be the act of paying, or that which is paid; discharge of a debt, obligation or duty; satisfaction of claim; recompense; the fulfilment of a promise or the performance of an agreement; the discharge in money of a sum due". In Black's .....

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..... ial or full discharge of the obligation. 2. The money or other valuable thing so delivered in satisfaction of an obligation." In the Law Lexicon by P. Ramanatha Aiyar (Fifth Edition, Volume 3 at page 3796), several connotations of the expression "payment" have been mentioned. We may reproduce the relevant part thereof as under: - "Payment is defined to be the act of paying, or that which is p .....

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