Under the Common Law, Payment of a Lesser Sum of Money

question 79

True/False

Under the common law, payment of a lesser sum of money than is owed in consideration of a promise to discharge a fully matured, undisputed debt is legally sufficient to support the promise of discharge.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Forgetting

A phenomenon where memory is lost or altered due to the introduction of specific conditions or stimuli, often involving the suppression of unwanted memories.

Suppression

The conscious effort to stop thinking about certain thoughts or feelings.

Inhibition

A psychological or physiological process that reduces or suppresses the response to stimuli.

Spontaneous Recovery

A conditioned response that had been extinguished reoccurs after there has been a time without exposure to the conditioned stimulus.