The performance of a duty, promlse, or obligation, or discharge of a debt or liability, by the delivery of money or oth-er value. Also the money or other thing so. delivered. Brady v. wasson, 6 Heisk. (Tenn.) 135; Bloodworth v. Jacobs, 2 La. Ann. 24; Root v. Kelley, 39 Misc. Rep. 530, 80 N. Y. Snpp. 482; Monlton* v. Robison, 27 N. H. 554; Clay v. Lakenan, 101 Mo. App. 563, 74