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• pledge# — 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… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• PLEDGE — The Concept In Jewish law, in addition to the personal right of action against the debtor, the creditor also has a right of lien on   the latter s property. This lien automatically comes into being when the debt is created and is termed aḥarayut… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Pledge (law) — In law a pledge (also pawn) is a bailment of personal property as a security for some debt or engagement [Joseph Story, Story on Bailments , 286.] The term is also used to denote the property which constitutes the security.Pledge is the pignus of …   Wikipedia

• pledge — pledgeable, adj. pledger, n. pledgeless, adj. /plej/, n., v., pledged, pledging. n. 1. a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war. 2. something delivered as security for the… …   Universalium

• pledge — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ campaign (esp. AmE), election (esp. BrE), manifesto (BrE) ▪ The party s election pledge was to cut income taxes by a third over the next five years. ▪ spending (BrE) …   Collocations dictionary

• Virginity pledge — Virginity pledges (or abstinence pledges) are commitments made by teenagers and young adults to refrain from sexual intercourse until marriage.They are most common in the United States, especially among Evangelical Christian denominations.… …   Wikipedia

• Anti-prostitution pledge — The U.S. government requires NGOs that receive federal anti HIV/AIDS or anti trafficking funds to adopt an organization wide policy opposing prostitution and sex trafficking. This requirement, known as the anti prostitution pledge, has been in… …   Wikipedia

• The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel — First edition cover, U.K. release This article is about the novella. For the film, see The Pledge (film). The Pledge (German: Das Versprechen) is a crime novella by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt, published in 1958, after Dürrenmatt thought… …   Wikipedia

• The Pledge — (German: Das Versprechen ) is a thriller novel by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt, published in 1958, after Dürrenmatt thought that his previous movie script, Es geschah am hellichten Tag ( It happened in broad daylight ) did not have a… …   Wikipedia

• hypotheca — /haypaӨiyka, hipa /. Hypotheca was a term of the Roman law, and denoted a pledge or mortgage. As distinguished from the term pignus, in the same law, it denoted a mortgage, whether of lands or of goods, in which the subject in pledge remained in… …   Black's law dictionary

• hypotheca — /haypaӨiyka, hipa /. Hypotheca was a term of the Roman law, and denoted a pledge or mortgage. As distinguished from the term pignus, in the same law, it denoted a mortgage, whether of lands or of goods, in which the subject in pledge remained in… …   Black's law dictionary