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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 59 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RELEASE (O.Fr. reles, variant of relais, from relaisser, to release, let go, See also:Lat. relaxare)  , freedom or deliverance from trouble, See also:pain or sorrow, the freeing or See also:discharge from some See also:obligation or See also:debt, the See also:action of letting go or releasing something fixed or set in position . In See also:law, the See also:term is applied to the discharge of some obligation, by which it is extinguished (see DEBT), and to the See also:conveyance of an See also:estate or See also:interest in real or See also:personal See also:property to one who has already some estate or interest therein . For the See also:special See also:form of See also:conveyancing known as " See also:lease and See also:release," see CONVEYANCING .

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