COMPOSITION

An agreement, made upon a sufficient consideration, between an insolvent or embarra ed debtor and his creditors, whereby the latter, fc;>r the eake of immediate payment, agree to accept a dividend le than the whole amount of their claims, to be distributed pro rata, in discharge and satisfaction of the whole. Bank v. McGeoch, 92 Wls. 286, 66 N. W. 606; Cro ley v. Moore, 40 N. J. Law, 27; Crawford v. Krueger, 201 Pa. 348, 50 Atl. 931; In re Merriman's Estate, 17 Fed. Cas. 131; Chapman v. Mfg. Co., 77 Me. 210; In re Adler (D. C.) 103 Fed. 444. "Composition" should be distinguished from "accord!' The latter properly· denotes an arrangement between a debtor and a single creditor for a discharge of the obligation by a part payment or on different terms. The former designates an arrangement between a debtor and the whole body of his creditors (or at least a considerable proportion of them) for the liquidatfo!l of their cllllma by tlie dMdend offered. Ill ·-clent ·taw. · Among the..Frankl, Gotha, BuritundJau, and other.barbarous [s. 240]