letter of relaxation

English

Noun

letter of relaxation (plural letters of relaxation)

1. (Scots law) A letter passing the signet, whereby a debtor is relieved from personal diligence, or whereby an outlaw is reponed against sentence of outlawry.
   • 1858, Samuel Jones-Loyd Overstone, Overstone Tracts on Metallic and Paper Currency:

     Do you think that the state of the exchanges is that which ought to guide the discretion of the Government, with reference to the issue of a similar letter of relaxation?

References

• “letter of relaxation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.