Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A pledge; the deposit of a thing, or the transfer of possession of it. or dominion over it, as security for the performance of an obligation. The essential idea in the Roman and civil law is the putting of property, whether of a chattel, or land, or territorial jurisdiction (or servants or children, when they are regarded as property), under the hand of the creditor or pledgee as security, so that, although the right of the owner was not extinguished. the creditor or pledgee could enforce his claim without legal proceedings or any effort to gain possession: and this is also the essential idea in pawn and also in the strict use of pledge; while hypothec and mortgage imply that the owner retains possession, and that the creditor has only a right of action, or a right to demand possession in the contingencies agreed on.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Rom. Law) A pledge or pawn.
Etymologies
- Latin (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Roman word "pignus," which Plutarch translates by [Greek: enechyra] ἐνέχυρα, means a thing pawned and delivered as a security to the pawnee.”
“Et misit Jehudah hoedum caprarum per manum amici sui Hadullamitae, ut caperet pignus e manu mulieris; qui non invenit eam.”
“* Hic est qui operatur ex aquis secundam nativitatem, semen quoddam divini generis, et consecrator caelestis nativitatis; pignus promissae haereditatis et quasi chirographum quoddam aeternae salutis; qui nos Dei faciat templum et nos efficiat domum, qui interpellat divinas aures pro nobis gemitibus ineloquacibus, advocationis officia, et defensionis exhibens munera, inhabitator corporibus nostris ductus, et sanctitatis effector; hic est qui inexplebiles cupiditates coercet: [5522] 1”
“The Latin translator renders this word by pignus, a pledge; but he is corrected therein by Hierom on Eph. i.”
“* Munus hoc quod in Christo est, -- in consummationem seculi nobiscum; hoc expectationis nostrae solatium, hoc in donorum operationibus futurae spei pignus est; hoc mentium lumen, hic splendour animorum est.”
“Saith “Quemadmodum nobis arrhabonem spiritus reliquit, ita et a nobis arrhabonem carnis accepit, et vexit in cœlum, pignus totius summæ illuc redigendæ,” Tertull.,”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
“[10] “Quemadmodum enim nobis arrhabonem Spiritus reliquit, ita et a nobis arrhabonem carnis accepit, et vexit in cœlum, pignus totius summæ illuc quandoque redigendæ.” —”
“* [6812] Quemadmodum enim nobis arrhabonem Spiritus reliquit, ita et a nobis arrhabonem carnis accepit, et vexit in cœlum, pignus totius summæ illuc quandoque redigendæ.”
“It is by some rendered, in Latin, “pignus,” a “pledge;” but this cannot be here intended.”
“* [3188] Quemadmodum enim nobis arrhabonem Spiritus reliquit, ita et a nobis arrhabonem carnis accepit, et vexit in cœlum, pignus totius summæ illuc quandoque redigendæ.”
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