Release and discharge
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
discharge · release · gave a release · release in full · released our father
in the texts
Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes
The settled waiver that the speaker says prevents any renewed suit over the same guardianship matters.
One of them (and it is as binding as any of the others) is that suit may not be brought in matters for which anyone has given a release and discharge.
Inasmuch as the laws, men of the jury, have granted that a special plea may be entered in cases where a man, after giving a release and discharge, nevertheless brings suit, and as both of these have been given to our father by Nausimachus and Xenopeithes who have commenced suit against us, we have pleaded, as you have just now heard, that their suit is not admissible.
But first the clerk shall read to you the depositions which show that they released our father from the charges which they made on the matter of his guardianship;
Against Pantaenetus
The settlement or waiver by which Pantaenetus is said to have relinquished claims against Nicobulus.
I therefore thought it best, if I withdrew and assumed the position of vendor in this man’s interest, that I should obtain a full release and discharge from all claims, and thus make a final settlement with him.
You hear the law, men of Athens, expressly stating that in cases where anyone has given a release and discharge, there shall be no further action.
Inasmuch as the laws, men of the jury, have granted that a special plea be entered in cases where a man, after having given a release and discharge, nevertheless brings suit, and as both of these have been given me by Pantaenetus here, I have pleaded, as you have just now heard, that his suit is not admissible.