DATION

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DATION, civil law, contracts. The act of giving something. It differs from 
  donation, which is a gift; dation, on the contrary, is giving something 
  without any liberality; as, the giving of an office. 
       2. Dation in payment, datio in solutionem, which was the giving one 
  thing in payment of another which was due, corresponds nearly to the accord 
  and satisfaction of the common law.