legal+pledge

  • 1legal pledge — index adjuration, affirmance (legal affirmation), affirmation, asseveration, avowal, certification (attested copy), confirmation …

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  • 2pledge — 1 / plej/ n 1: a delivery of esp. personal property as security for a debt or other obligation; broadly: the perfection of a security interest in collateral through possession of the collateral by a creditor or other promisee 2 a: property and… …

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  • 3pledge# — pledge n Pledge, earnest, token, pawn, hostage are comparable when they denote something that is given or held as a sign of another s faith or intention to do what has been promised. Pledge, originally and still in some applications a technical… …

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  • 4pledge for the payment of a debt — index mortgage Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 5pledge of security — index mortgage Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 6pledge one's credit — index promise (vow) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 7pledge one's honor — index promise (vow) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 8pledge one's word — index avouch (guarantee), promise (vow), undertake Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 9pledge oneself — index promise (vow) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 10Pledge — ♦ Legal guaranty; a person who guaranteed that another would meet a legal obligation. (Bennett, Judith M. Women in the Medieval English Countryside, 234) Related terms: Pledging …

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