pignoration

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  1. The act of pledging or pawning.
  2. In civil law, the holding of cattle that have done damage as security till satisfaction is made. See pignus.

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  1. = Old French pignoration, from Middle Latin pignoratio(n-), Late Latin pigneratio(n-), a pledging, pawning, from Latin pignerare, past participle pigneratus, pledge: see pignorate.
 

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