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Idoneus

means appropriate or suitable. A responsi-ble or solvent man, for example, was as an idoneus homo while a pledge of sufficient security was termed idonea cautio. Also spelled idoneous, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 749.

Mortuum vadium

Mortuum vadium, a deed pledge or mortgage. See MORTGAGE.

In vadio

In vadio, in gage; in pledge.

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Pone per vadium

so called from the words of the writ, pone per vadium et salvos plegios-'put by gage and safe pledge, A.B., the defendant.'

Vadium mortuum

dead-pledge by which the pledgor loses the security and its fruits or interest which were taken by the pledgee or mortgagee until repayment or redemption; and see VIVUM VADIUM.

Vadiare duellum

Vadiare duellum (to wage combat), where two contending parties, on a challenge, give and take a pledge of fighting.

Undertaking

SCC 213; see also S.M. Milajkar v. Telecom Dist. Manager, (2003) 4 SCC 27 (38). 1. A promise, pledge, or engagement; 2. A bail bond, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1528.

Reprisal

payment of what is due to her, together with interest and damages, or may keep it as a pledge until she has received ample satisfaction. For the latter it is rather a stoppage or a seizure than

Replevin

contested by action of trespass or unlawful distress. The word means a re-delivery to the owner of the pledge or thing taken in distress. It is re-delivered to him by the registrar of the county court of

Replegaire

Replegaire, means to take back on pledge or surety, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1301.

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