Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Scots law, a wad; a pledge or surety.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) Pledge; security; bail. See
mortgage . - noun (Law) a living pledge, which exists where an estate is granted until a debt is paid out of its proceeds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law, archaic A
pledge orsecurity ;bail .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He had never in any court given _vadium_ or _plegium, _ says Jocelin; hardly ever seen a court, when he was set to preside in one.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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He had never in any court given _vadium_ or _plegium_, says Jocelin; hardly ever seen a court, when he was set to preside in one.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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