INSTALMENT (for earlier stallment or estallment, from Fr. estaler, to

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• FIX, THEODORE (180o-1846)

fix, arrange; the

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• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change is probably due to the

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• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of the verb " install ")  , the payment of a sum of money at stated intervals and in fixed portions instead of in a lump sum; hence the sums of money as they fall due at the periods agreed upon . For the system of purchase by deferred payments or instalments see HIRE-PURCHASE AGREEMENT .