v. Obs. Also STALL. [app. ad. OF. estaler to place, fix; cf. INSTALL.] trans. To arrange the payment of (a debt, sum of money) by installments. Hence Estallment (see quot.; also STALLMENT).
1577–87. Holinshed, Chron., III. 1142/2. That debt is estalled, and is according to that estallment trulie answered.
1643. Sc. Acts (1814), VI. 38/1. Some wther way how satisfactioune … may be made … by estalment at four equall payments.
1738. Hist. Crt. Excheq., v. 100. An Estallment, which is an Assizing or Establishing the Times of Payments of such Debtors.
