Word Meanings - PLEDGERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pledging; suretyship.

PLEDGERY
A pledging; suretyship.
PLEDGE
The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment;
PLEDGEOR; PLEDGOR
One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to Ant: pledgee. Note: This word analogically requires the e after g, but the spelling pledgor is perhaps commoner.
PLEDGELESS
Having no pledge.
PLEDGER
One who pledges.
PLEDGEE
The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.
SURETYSHIP
The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another. Bouvier.
PLEDGET
A string of oakum used in calking. (more info) 1. A small plug.
INTERPLEDGE
To pledge mutually.
SAFE-PLEDGE
A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.
IMPLEDGE
To pledge. Sir W. Scott.
FRANKPLEDGE
A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free