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Bridestake

A stake or post set in the ground for guests at a wedding to dance round

Impone

To stake to wager to pledge

Picket

A stake sharpened or pointed especially one used in fortification and encampments to mark bounds and angles or one used

interest

also contingent interest and executory interest in this entry compare remainder, reversion insurable interest : an interest or stake in property or in a person that arises from the potential for esp. financial loss upon the destruction

Sacramentum

the sacramenti actio of the Civil Law, see Sand. Just., and Cum. C. L. 313. Means the money staked as wager. The word evidently has a religious significance. The sum of the wager, forfeited by the party

Paxillose

Resembling a little stake

Stakeholder

Stakeholder, one with whom a stake is deposited [see, generally, (English) Betting and Lotteries Act, 1934 (24 & 25

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