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One who pledges. A pawner. … [Read more...] about PLEDGER

Engl. practice. A record which contains the declaration, plea, replication, rejoinder, and other pleadings, and the issue. … [Read more...] about PLEAS POLL

Suretyship, or an undertaking or answering tor another. Gloucester Bank v. Worcester, 10 Pick. (Mass.) 53L … [Read more...] about PLEDGERY

In old English ecclesiastical law. A rural dean. Cowell. … [Read more...] about PLEBANUS

pleading. It was anciently necessary to find pledges or sureties to prosecute a suit, and the names of the pledges were added at the foot of the declaration; but in the course of time it became unnecessary to find such pledges because the plaintiff was no longer liable to be amerced, pro falsa clamora, and the pledges were merely nominal persons, and now John Doe and Richard … [Read more...] about PLEDGES