Mangum v. . Simms

The question submitted is whether such receipt maintains either of the pleas. The acceptance of the account mentioned in this case cannot be considered as a payment of the debt. If it operates to the destruction of the demand, it must be by way of satisfaction. Had it been a payment made to one administrator, it would unquestionably have been good; for then it would have been the performance of the thing stipulated; it would not have rested its discharge of the debt on the agreement of the administration. A satisfaction is a very different thing; it is not the performance of the act…