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Latin. A liberating agreement. An agreement whereby a real right is departed from or restricted. Such agreements would seem to form an exception to the general rule, that writing must intervene in all that relates to land, in order to bar the power of resiling. Accordingly, it has been held that a mere verbal obligation, followed by no rei interventus, agreeing to restrict an infeftment in security, cannot be retracted, and may be proved 'by the oath of the party restricting; and, in the case of Ker, 8th Feb. 1666, M. 8465, a promise to liberate part of the lands burdened with ...