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Bailment

Where goods are lent to the bailee to be used by him for hire. (4) Vadium. Pawn or pledge. (5) Locatio operis faciendi. Where goods are delivered to be carried, or something is to be done about

Antichresis

which was called VIF-gage, i.e., vivum vadium. The obsolete Welsh mortgage bears a resemblance to this kind of pledge, I Domat, b. iii. Tit. I. s. i art. 28; Story on Bailments, 307, par. 344.

Affidavit

Affidavit [fr. affidare, M. Lat., to pledge one's faith, fr. fides, Lat.], a written statement sworn before a person having authority to administer an oath.

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Actionable claim

to any debt , other than a debt secured by mortgage of immovable property or by hypothecation or pledge of moveable property, or to any beneficial interest in moveable property not in the possession, either actual or

Actio judicati

first, the movables, which were sold within eight days afterwards, and then the immovables, which were delivered in pledge to the creditor, or put under the care of a curator, and, if at the end of two

Borrower

assistance by any bank or financial institution or who has given any guarantee or created any mortgage or pledge as security for the financial assistance granted by any bank or financial institution and includes a person who

Redeemable

Capable of being redeemed subject to repurchase held under conditions permitting redemption as a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable

Plight

imp amp p p of Plight to pledge

Pledgeor

One who pledges or delivers anything in pledge a pledger opposed to pledgee

Pledgee

The one to whom a pledge is given or to whom property pledged is delivered

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