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Pledge
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PledgePledge or pawn. Contracts. These words seem indifferently used to convey the same idea. 2) Pledge Contracts. He who becomes security for another, and, in this sense, every one who becomes bail for another is a pledge
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Pledge
Pledge or pawn. Contracts. These words seem indifferently used to convey the same idea. 2) Pledge Contracts. He who becomes security for another, and, in this sense, every one who becomes bail for another is a pledge
Pawn
A pledge.
Convey
To transfer property to someone by selling it or by other means.
Security
That which renders a matter sure; an instrument which renders certain the performance of a contract. The term is also sometimes applied to designate a person who becomes the surety for another, or who engages himself for the performance of another's contract.
Bail
Criminal law: a commitment made (and possibly secured by cash or property) to secure the release of a person being held in custody and suspected of a crime, to provide some kind of guarantee that the suspect will appear to answer the charges at some later date.
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Pledgee
The same as pawnee
Pledger
The same as pawner.
Pledges
Pleading. It was anciently necessary to find pledges or sureties to prosecute a suit, and the names of the pledges were added at the foot of the declaration; but in the course of time it became unnecessary to find such pledges because the plaintiff was no longer liable to be amerced, pro falsa clamora, and the pledges were merely nominal persons, and now John Doe and Richard Roe are the universal pledges; but they may be omitted altogether;
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Pleas of the crown
English law. This phrase is now employed to signify criminal causes in which the king is a party. Formerly it signified royal causes for offences of a greater magnitude than mere misdemeanors. These were left to be tried in the courts of the barons, whereas the greater offences, or royal causes, were to be tried in the king's courts, under the appellation of pleas of the crown.
Pleas poll
English practice. A record which contains the declaration, plea, replication, rejoinder, and other pleadings, and the issue.
Plebeian
One who is classed among the common people, as distinguished from the nobles. Happily in this country the order of nobles does not exist.
Plebeians
One of the divisions of the people in ancient Rome; that class which was composed of those who were not nobles nor slaves.
Plebiscit
Civil law. This is an anglicised word from the Latin plebiscitum, which is composed or derived from plebs and scire, and signifies, to establish or ordain.
Pledge
Pledgee
The same as pawnee
Pledger
The same as pawner.
Pledges
Pleading. It was anciently necessary to find pledges or sureties to prosecute a suit, and the names of the pledges were added at the foot of the declaration; but in the course of time it became unnecessary to find such pledges because the plaintiff was no longer liable to be amerced, pro falsa clamora, and the pledges were merely nominal persons, and now John Doe and Richard Roe are the universal pledges; but they may be omitted altogether;
Plegiis acquietandis, writ de
The name of an ancient writ in the English law, which lies where a man becomes pledge or surety for another to pay a certain sum of money at a certain day; after the day, if the debtor does not pay the debt, and the. surety be compelled to pay, he shall have this writ to compel the debtor to pay the same.
Plena probatio
A term used in the civil law, to signify full proof, in contradistinction to semi-plena probatio, which is only a presumption.
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Pledge
Pledge or pawn. Contracts. These words seem indifferently used to convey the same idea. 2) Pledge Contracts. He who becomes security for another, and, in this sense, every one who becomes bail for another is a pledge
Pawn
A pledge.
Convey
To transfer property to someone by selling it or by other means.
Security
That which renders a matter sure; an instrument which renders certain the performance of a contract. The term is also sometimes applied to designate a person who becomes the surety for another, or who engages himself for the performance of another's contract.
Bail
Criminal law: a commitment made (and possibly secured by cash or property) to secure the release of a person being held in custody and suspected of a crime, to provide some kind of guarantee that the suspect will appear to answer the charges at some later date.
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Pledgee
The same as pawnee
Pledger
The same as pawner.
Pledges
Pleading. It was anciently necessary to find pledges or sureties to prosecute a suit, and the names of the pledges were added at the foot of the declaration; but in the course of time it became unnecessary to find such pledges because the plaintiff was no longer liable to be amerced, pro falsa clamora, and the pledges were merely nominal persons, and now John Doe and Richard Roe are the universal pledges; but they may be omitted altogether;
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Pleas of the crown
English law. This phrase is now employed to signify criminal causes in which the king is a party. Formerly it signified royal causes for offences of a greater magnitude than mere misdemeanors. These were left to be tried in the courts of the barons, whereas the greater offences, or royal causes, were to be tried in the king's courts, under the appellation of pleas of the crown.
Pleas poll
English practice. A record which contains the declaration, plea, replication, rejoinder, and other pleadings, and the issue.
Plebeian
One who is classed among the common people, as distinguished from the nobles. Happily in this country the order of nobles does not exist.
Plebeians
One of the divisions of the people in ancient Rome; that class which was composed of those who were not nobles nor slaves.
Plebiscit
Civil law. This is an anglicised word from the Latin plebiscitum, which is composed or derived from plebs and scire, and signifies, to establish or ordain.
Pledge
Pledgee
The same as pawnee
Pledger
The same as pawner.
Pledges
Pleading. It was anciently necessary to find pledges or sureties to prosecute a suit, and the names of the pledges were added at the foot of the declaration; but in the course of time it became unnecessary to find such pledges because the plaintiff was no longer liable to be amerced, pro falsa clamora, and the pledges were merely nominal persons, and now John Doe and Richard Roe are the universal pledges; but they may be omitted altogether;
Plegiis acquietandis, writ de
The name of an ancient writ in the English law, which lies where a man becomes pledge or surety for another to pay a certain sum of money at a certain day; after the day, if the debtor does not pay the debt, and the. surety be compelled to pay, he shall have this writ to compel the debtor to pay the same.
Plena probatio
A term used in the civil law, to signify full proof, in contradistinction to semi-plena probatio, which is only a presumption.
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