Expensilation

Rom. Law. [ad. L. expensilātiōn-em, properly expensī lātiō a setting down of expenditures. Cf. ACCEPTILATION.] A process by which an existing cause of debt was merged in a new formal obligation (compare the English ‘account stated,’ and the contract of exchange in the law merchant).

1875.  Poste, Gaius, III. Comm. (ed. 2), 363. Expensilation or Literal contract. Ibid., 408. One species of Literal obligation, namely Expensilation,… was effected by an entry in these domestic registers.