Stake - Law Dictionary Search Results
Mise
Mise [Fr., mise, mise en gage, stake-money], disbursement, costs; also a tax or tallage, etc.' also, the issue in a writ of right. It is
Corporation or body politic
for the contracts of the corporation in their private capacity, their share in the capital only being at stake: but in the latter the law looks, not to the partnership, but to the individual members of it,
Bet
Bet, means something staked on the outcome of a contingency. Often used as a synonym for wager. It does not include a
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Raffle
kind of lottery in which several persons pay in shares the value of something put up as a stake and then determine by chance as by casting dice which one of them shall become the sole possessor
Felo de se
commits suicide. The barbarous mode of burying such persons, in a place where four roads met, with a stake driven through their bodies, was abolished by 4 Geo. 4, c. 52, which directed burial in the churchyard
parlay
To wager the winnings plus the initial stake of one bet on a subsequent wager or to engage in a series of such increased wagers
Impale
To pierce with a pale to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake See Empale
Gamble
To play or game for money or other stake
Depone
To lay as a stake to wager
suitor
2 : one that seeks to take over a business [approved the merger before the obtained a 10% stake "Wall Street Journal"]
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