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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 648 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INSTALMENT (for earlier stallment or estallment, from Fr. estaler, to See also:fix, arrange; the See also:change is probably due to the See also:influence of the verb " install ") , the See also:payment of a sum of See also:money at stated intervals and in fixed portions instead of in a lump sum; hence the sums of money as they fall due at the periods agreed upon. For the See also:system of See also:purchase by deferred payments or instalments see HIRE-PURCHASE AGREEMENT.

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