Utah Affirmative Defense: Accord and satisfaction

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Elements of Accord and satisfaction:

(i) a bona fide dispute over an unliquidated amount;
(ii) a payment tendered in full settlement of the entire dispute; and
(iii) an acceptance of the payment.


Estate Landscape & Snow Removal Specialists, Inc. v. Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co., 844 P.2d 322, 325 (Utah 1992)