satisfaction

satisfaction
    n 1: the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire,
         need, or expectation; "the chef tasted the sauce with great
         satisfaction" [ant: {dissatisfaction}]
    2: state of being gratified or satisfied; "dull repetitious work
       gives no gratification"; "to my immense gratification he
       arrived on time" [syn: {gratification}, {satisfaction}]
    3: compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get satisfaction
       from the local store" [syn: {atonement}, {expiation},
       {satisfaction}]
    4: (law) the payment of a debt or fulfillment of an obligation;
       "the full and final satisfaction of the claim"
    5: act of fulfilling a desire or need or appetite; "the
       satisfaction of their demand for better services"
    

Satisfaction \Sat`is*fac"tion\, n. [OE. satisfaccioun, F.
   satisfaction, fr. L. satisfactio, fr. satisfacere to satisfy.
   See {Satisfy}.]
   1. The act of satisfying, or the state of being satisfied;
      gratification of desire; contentment in possession and
      enjoyment; repose of mind resulting from compliance with
      its desires or demands.
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            The mind having a power to suspend the execution and
            satisfaction of any of its desires.   --Locke.
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   2. Settlement of a claim, due, or demand; payment;
      indemnification; adequate compensation.
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            We shall make full satisfaction.      --Shak.
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   3. That which satisfies or gratifies; atonement.
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            Die he, or justice must; unless for him
            Some other, able, and as willing, pay
            The rigid satisfaction, death for death. --Milton.
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   Syn: Contentment; content; gratification; pleasure;
        recompense; compensation; amends; remuneration;
        indemnification; atonement.
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SATISFACTION, construction by courts of equity. Satisfaction is defined to 
be the donation of a thing, with the intention, express or implied, that 
such donation is to be an extinguishment of some existing right or claim in 
the donee. 
     2. Where a person indebted bequeaths to his creditor a legacy, equal 
to, or exceeding the amount of the debt, which is not noticed in the will, 
courts of equity, in the absence of any intimation of a contrary intention, 
have adopted the rule that the testator shall be presumed to have meant the 
legacy as a satisfaction. of the debt. 
     3. When a testator, being indebted, bequeaths to his creditor a legacy, 
simpliciter, and of the same nature as the debt, and not coming within the 
exceptions stated in the next paragraph, it has been held a satisfaction of 
the debt, when the legacy is equal to, or exceeds the amount of the debt. 
Pre. Ch. 240; 3 P. Wms. 353. 
     4. The following are exceptions to the rule: 1. Where the legacy is of, 
less amount than the debt, it shall not be deemed a part payment or 
satisfaction. 1 Ves. pen. 263. 
     5.-2. Where, though the debt and legacy are of equal amount, there is a 
difference in the times of payment, so that the legacy may not be equally 
beneficial to the legatee as the debt. Prec. Ch. 236; 2 Atk. 300; 2 Ves. 
sen. 63 5; 3 Atk. 96; 1 Bro. C. C. 129; 1 Bro. C. C. 195; 1 McClel. & Y. 
Rep. Exch. 41; 1 Swans. R. 219. 
     6.-3. When the legacy and the debt are of a different nature, either 
with reference, to the subjects themselves, or with respect to the interests 
given. 2 P. Wms. 614; 1 Ves. jr. 298; 2 Ves. jr. 463. 
     7.-4. When the provision by the will is expressed to be given for a 
particular purpose, such purpose will prevent the testamentary gift being 
construed a satisfaction of the debt, because it is given diverse intuitu. 2 
Ves. sen. 635. 
     8.-5. When the debt of the testator is contracted subsequently to the, 
making of the will; for, in that case, the legacy will not be deemed a 
satisfaction. 2 Salk. 508. 
     9.-6. When the legacy is uncertain or contingent. 2 Atk. 300; 2 P. Wms. 
343. 
     10.-7. Where the debt itself is contingent, as where it arises from a 
running account between the testator and legatee; 1 P. Wms. 296; or it is a 
negotiable bill of exchange. 3 Ves. jr. 561. 
     11.-8. Where there is an express direction in the will for the payment 
of debts end legacies, the court will infer from the circumstance, that the 
testator intended that both the debt owing from him to the legatee and the 
legacy, should, be paid. 1 P. Wms. 408; 2 Roper, Leg. 54. 
     See, generally, Tr. of Eq. 333; Yelv. 11, n.; 1 Swans. R. 221; 18 Eng. 
Com. Law Rep. 201; 4 Ves. jr. 301; 7 Ves. jr. 507; 1 Suppl. to Ves. jr. 204, 
308, 311, 342, 348, 329; 8 Com. Dig. Appen. tit. Satisfaction, p. 917; Rob. 
on Frauds, 46, n. 15; 2 Suppl. to Ves. jr. 22, 46, 205; 1 Vern. 346; Roper, 
Leg. c. 17; 1 Roper on Hush. and Wife, 501 to 511; 2 Id. 53 to 63; Math. on 
Pres. c. 6, p. 107; 1 Desaus. R. 814; 2 Munf. Rep. 413; Stallm. on El. and 
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SATISFACTION, practice. An entry made on the record, by which a party in 
whose favor a judgment was rendered, declares that he has been satisfied and 
paid. 
     2. In Alabama, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, New 
Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and, Vermont, 
provision is made by statute, requiring the mortgagee to discharge a 
mortgage upon the record, by entering satisfaction in the margin. The 
refusal or neglect to enter satisfaction after payment and demand, renders 
the mortgagee liable to an action, after the time given him by the 
respective statutes for doing the same has elapsed, and subjects him to the 
payment of damages, and, in some cases, treble costs. In Indiana and New 
York, the register or recorder of deeds may himself discharge the mortgage 
upon the record on the exhibition of a certificate of payment and 
satisfaction signed by the mortgagee or his representatives, and attached to 
the mortgage, which shall be recorded. Ind. St. 1836, 64; 1 N. Y. Rev. St. 
761. 
    

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      adequacy, adequate supply, adequateness, adherence,
      affair of honor, amends, amortization, amortizement, amusement,
      animal pleasure, atonement, balancing, bare minimum,
      bare sufficiency, bellyful, binder, blood money, bodily pleasure,
      care, carnal delight, carrying out, cash, cash payment, clearance,
      comfort, commutation, compensation, competence, competency,
      compliance, composition, composure, compromise, conformance,
      conformity, consideration, content, contentedness, contentment,
      correction, counteraction, counterbalancing, coziness,
      creature comforts, damages, debt service, defrayal, defrayment,
      delight, deposit, disbursal, discharge, doling out, down payment,
      duel, earnest, earnest money, ease, endpleasure, engorgement,
      enjoyment, enough, entertainment, entire satisfaction, euphoria,
      exact measure, execution, expiation, expiatory offering, fill,
      fixing, forepleasure, fruition, fulfillment, fullness, fun, glut,
      gratification, great satisfaction, guerdon, gusto, happiness,
      hearty enjoyment, heed, heeding, hire purchase, hire purchase plan,
      honorarium, indemnification, indemnity, installment,
      installment plan, intellectual pleasure, interest payment,
      joie de vivre, joy, just enough, keen pleasure, keeping, kicks,
      lex talionis, liquidation, luxury, making amends, making good,
      making right, making up, meed, mending, minimum, monomachy,
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      observation, offsetting, overhaul, overhauling, paying,
      paying back, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment,
      payment in kind, payoff, peace of mind, peace offering,
      performance, physical pleasure, piaculum, pleasure, practice,
      prepayment, price, propitiation, quarterly payments,
      quiet pleasure, quittance, reclamation, recompense, reconcilement,
      reconciliation, rectification, redemption, redress, refund,
      regular payments, reimbursement, relish, remedy, remittance,
      remuneration, repair, repairing, reparation, repayment, repletion,
      requital, requitement, resignation, respect, restitution,
      retaliation, retirement, retribution, return, revenge, reward,
      right amount, salvage, satiation, satiety, satisfactoriness,
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      self-gratification, self-indulgence, sensual pleasure,
      sensuous pleasure, settlement, sexual pleasure, single combat,
      sinking-fund payment, skinful, smart money, snootful, solatium,
      spot cash, squaring, substitution, sufficiency, sufficientness,
      supersaturation, surfeit, sweetness of life, titillation,
      troubleshooting, vindication, voluptuousness, weekly payments,
      well-being, wergild, zest