satisfaction of a claim

They are usually issued to ensure the satisfaction of a claim against the defendant.

A settlement made on divorce which is in satisfaction or partial satisfaction of a claim for maintenance is not, to that extent, a chargeable transfer.

There was nothing bearing on the present question, whether a release by accord and satisfaction of a claim for rent against an assignee would release the original lessee and other covenantors.

Distraint is the act or process "whereby a person (the distrainor), traditionally even without prior court approval, seizes the personal property of another located upon the distrainor's land in satisfaction of a claim, as a pledge for performance of a duty, or in reparation of an injury."