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Dead pledge

Dead pledge [mortuum vadium], a mortgage of lands or goods

Estate

kinds: vivum vadium, living pledge or vifgage, and mortuum vadium, dead pledge or mortgage; (ii.) estates by statute mer-chant or statute staple;

Gage, estates in

vadium, or living pledge, or vifgage; (2) mortuum vadium, or dead pledge, better known as mortgage.

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Vadium mortuum

Vadium mortuum, a mortgage or dead-pledge by which the pledgor loses the security and its fruits

Mortgage

Mortgage [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and gage, pledge], a deed pledge; a thing put into

Magna Carta

show our letters-patents of our summons for debt, which the dead man did owe to us, it shall be lawful to … himself be ready to satisfy there for. Neither shall the pledges of the debtor be distrained, as long as the principal

mortgage

mortgage [Anglo-French, from Old French, from mort dead (from Latin mortuus) + gage security] 1 a : a … or against personal or movable property (as an airplane) compare pledge security interest 2 at interest collateral mortgage in the civil

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