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Pawnee

One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security one who takes anything in pawn

Lumber

A pawnbrokers shop or room for storing articles put in pawn hence a pledge or pawn

Impone

To stake to wager to pledge

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Impawn

To put in pawn to pledge to pawn

Hostage

A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind on the

Hypothecate

as property to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title to pledge without delivery of possession to mortgage as ships or other personal property to make a contract by bottomry

Five-mile Act

teach-ing or coming within fix miles any town where they had held of the if they refused to pledges that they would not seek to overturn the church of England. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.

Fastermans, or fasting-men

Fastermans, or fasting-men [homines habentes, Lat.], menin repute and substance; pledges, sureties, or bondsmen, who, according to the Saxon policy, were fast bound to answer for each other's peaceable

Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom

of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. See 56 Geo. 3, c. 98. This fund is pledged for the payment of the whole of the interest of the national debt of Great Britain and (now

Devadiatus, or Divadiatus

Devadiatus, or Divadiatus, an offender without sureties or pledges, Cowel.

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