An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.
a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
a contract under which an obligee promises to accept a stated performance in satisfaction of the obligor's existing duty
an agreement by a creditor to accept less than bargained for from a debtor
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
an (independent) agreement to accept something different from or less than that which the person agreeing to accept (creditor) is entitled in order to extinguish an obligation
An amicable agreement between parties.
The Prices and Incomes Accord, which is a number of agreements concerning salaries and benefits for Australian workers under industrial awards. The agreements took place between the Australian Labor Government and the trade union movement during the 1980s and early 1990s.
An agreement by which one accepts something different (usually less) from what is owed as full satisfaction The amount owed may be in dispute or simply accepted as full satisfaction by the creditor or claimant. The agreement and acceptance is called "Accord and Satisfaction."
ACCORD is the trade union for HBOS workers. It has 25,000 members and is affiliated with the Trades Union Congress and the Scottish Trades Union Congress. ('HBOS' is a bank holding company, formed from the merger of Halifax Plc and Bank of Scotland.)