Pledge - Law Dictionary Search Results
credit
the creditor in the future usually with interest as compensation to the creditor and often secured by a pledge of property or the right to attach the debtor's income in case of a failure to repay see
antichresis
opposite + chrēsis use, from chrēsthai to use, need] in the civil law of Louisiana : a written pledge and transfer from a debtor to a creditor of possession of immovable property giving the creditor the right
affiant
affiant [Middle French, from present participle of affier to pledge faith, swear, from Medieval Latin affidare, ultimately from Latin ad to + fidere to trust] : a person
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Burghbrech
The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace breach of the peace
distress
distringere to hinder, punish see distrain ] 1 : seizure and detention of the goods of another as pledge or to obtain satisfaction of a claim by the sale of the goods seized ;specif : seizure by
Disgage
To free from a gage or pledge to disengage
ABC transaction
to the production payment to corporation (C) which pays A in cash borrowed from a lender on C's pledge of the production payment, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 3.
Empawn
To put in pawn to pledge to impawn
Borsholder
good behaviour of all its members, 1 Bl. Com. 114 (356). The chief of a tithing or frank pledge; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.
Bord-brigch
Bord-brigch [fr. borg-bryce, or burg-brych, Sax.], a breach of violation of suretyship, pledge-breach, or breach of mutual fidelity.
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