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SATISFACTION (See also:Lat. salisfacerc, to satisfy) , reparation for an injury or offence; See also:payment, pecuniary or otherwise, of a See also:debt or See also:obligation; particularly, in See also:law, and equitable See also:doctrine of much importance. It may operate either as between strangers or as between See also:father and See also:child. As between strangers: it was laid down in See also:Talbot v. See also:Duke of See also:Shrewsbury, 1714, Pr. Ch. 394, that where a debtor bequeaths to his creditor a See also:legacy as See also:great as, or greater than the debt, the legacy shall be deemed a satisfaction of the debt. This See also:rule, however, has fallen under a consider-able amount of discredit, and very small circumstances are required to rebut the presumption of satisfaction. If the debt was incurred after the See also:execution of the will, there is no satisfaction, nor is there where the will giving the legacy contains a direction to pay debts. As between See also:parent and child, the doctrine operates (a) in the satisfaction of legacies by portions, and (b) of portions by legacies. In the See also:case of (a), it has been laid down that where a parent, or one acting in loco parentis, gives a legacy to a child, without stating the purpose for which he gives it, it will be understood as a portion; and if the father afterwards advance a portion on the See also:marriage, or preferment in See also:life, of that child, though of less amount, it is a satisfaction of the whole, or in See also:part. This application of the doctrineis based on the See also:maxim that " equality is See also:equity," as is also the rule (b) that where a legacy bequeathed by a parent, or one in loco parentis, is as great as, or greater than, a portion or See also:provision previously secured to the child, a presumption arises that the legacy was intended by the parent as a See also:complete satisfaction. In each of the above cases, of course, the presumption may be rebutted by See also:evidence of the testator's intentions.

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theology, the doctrine of satisfaction is the doctrine that the sufferings of See also:Christ are accepted by the divine See also:justice as a substitute for the See also:punishment due for the sins of the See also:world (see See also:ATONEMENT).

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