vadium vivum
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin
Noun
- (law) (law) A living pledge, which exists where an estate is granted until a debt is paid out of its proceeds.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vadium vivum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)