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"Quittance" Quotes from Famous Books

... the king," and were probably paid out of the public revenues. Thus in the second year of Evil-Merodach it is said of the claimants to an inheritance that "they shall speak to the scribes of the king and seal the deed," and the seller of some land has to take the deed of quittance "to the scribes of the king," who "shall supervise and seal it in the city." Many of the scribes were priests; and it is not uncommon to find the clerk who draws up a contract and appears as a witness to be described as "the priest" ...

— Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs • Rev. A. H. Sayce

... fact," Asgill struck in, "that before your grandfather died I lent you a clear five hundred, and I'm to take that, that's my own already, in quittance of all!" ...

— The Wild Geese • Stanley John Weyman

... He pours it out; Plutus, the god of gold, Is but his steward: no meed but he repays Sevenfold above itself; no gift to him But breeds the giver a return exceeding All use of quittance. ...

— The Life of Timon of Athens • William Shakespeare [Craig edition]

... little more reward than liberal promises; you have told me often that this should be mended—I'll make it easily done—I'm not unreasonable—I should be contented to hold Heathcote's ground, along with this small farm on which we stand, as full quittance of all obligations and promises ...

— The Purcell Papers - Volume II. (of III.) • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

... that? The town is Havelok's by right, and maybe you can buy him a village across seas with it. But give me a full quittance for my purchase of your goods and cattle and house, that I may have ...

— Havelok The Dane - A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln • Charles Whistler

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