EXTENSION
EXTENSION, comm. law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in order to enable the former, embarrassed in his circumstances, to retrieve his standing, agree to wait for a definite length of time after their several claims should become due and payable, before they will demand payment.
2. Among the French, a similar agreement is known by the name of atermoiement. Merl. Rep. mot Atermoiement.