Concoct - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: concoctConcocter
One who concocts...
Concoct
To digest to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition...
Concoction
A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition digestion...
Concoctive
Having the power of digesting or ripening digestive...
Eupepsia
Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs good concoction or digestion opposed to dyspepsia...
Pawn or Pledge
Pawn or Pledge [fr. pignus, Lat.], a bailment of goods by a debtor to his creditor, to be kept till the debt is discharged.A mortgage of goods is in the Common Law distinguishable from a mere pledge or pawn. By a mortgage the whole legal title passes conditionally to the mortgagee; and if the goods be not redeemed at the stipulated time, the title becomes absolute at law although equity allows a redemption. But in a pledge, a special property only passes to the pledgee, the general property remaining in the pledgor. Also, in the case of a pledge, the right of a pledgee is not consummated, except by possession; and, ordinarily, when that possession is relinquished, the right of the pledgee is extinguished or waived. But, in the case of a mortgage of personal property the right of property passes by the conveyance to the mortgagee, and the possession is not or may not be essential to create or support the title.As to things which may be the subject of pawn: These are, ordinarily, goods a...
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