Acceptilation

Acceptilation (Lat. acceptilatio) was a term in Roman law (and adopted in Scots law) for the remission of a debt through an acquittance by the creditor testifying to the receipt of money which never has been paid, or a kind of legal fiction for a free remission. By an obvious transference, the word was used in dogmatic theology for the doctrine laid down by Duns Scotus, and defended by Arminians, that the satisfaction rendered by Christ was not in itself really a true or full equivalent, but was merely accepted by God, through his gracious good-will, as sufficient.