ACCEPTILATION, contracts. In the civil law, is a release made by a creditorto his debtor of his debt, without receiving any consideration. Ayl. Pand.tit. 26, p. 570. It is a species of donation, but not subject to the formsof the latter, and is valid, unless in fraud of creditors. Merlin, Repert.de Jurisp. h.t. Acceptilation may be defined verborum conceptio quacreditor debitori, quod debet, acceptum fert; or, a certain arrangement ofwords by which on the question of the debtor, the creditor, wishing todissolve the obligation, answers that he admits as received, what in fact,he has not received. The acceptilation is an imaginary payment. Dig. 46, 4,1 and 19; Dig. 2, 14, 27, 9; Inst. 3, 30, 1.