Legal Definition and Related Resources of Disbursement

In law, the term generally is used to denote the expenses necessarily paid or incurred by a party . These are expenditures or outlays of money which an attorney is authorized by law to make and which he does make in the conduct of a case. See Durham Fertilizer Co. v Glenn, 26 S.E. 796, 48 S. C. 494.

(Act of disbursing), noun

• alloting
• allotment
• apportioning
• apportionment
• assigning by lot
• compensating
• dealing out
• dispersal
• disposal
• disseminating
• dissemination
• dividing
• handing out
• laying out
• outgo
• outlay
• parceling out

(Funds paid out), noun

• allowance
• compensation
• costs
• defrayal
• defrayment
• emolument
• expenditure
• expense
• fees
• money going out
• moneys expended
• moneys paid out
• outgo
• outlay
• pay
• payment
• recompense
• redress
• reimbursement
• remittance
• remuneration
• repayment
• restitution
• spendings
• Associated Concepts: disbursements necessarily paid or incurred
• legal disbursements
• necessary disbursements

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Disbursement Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary)

The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Disbursement in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: Payment by cash or check.