 | Asa Kinne - 1852 - 736 sider
...the security of an engagement. — 1 Domat, K. 3, tit. 1, sec. 1. Mr. Justice Story defines it to be a bailment of personal property as a security for some debt or engagement. — Story on Bailm., 196. 2 Sto ry's Com. on Eg. Jurisp., 296. 3. What is the distinction between a... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1856 - 728 sider
...appropriation of the thing given for the security of an engagement.6 In the common law, it may be defined to be a bailment of personal property, as a security for some debt or engagement. In our language, the term paVfci or pledge is ordinarily confined to personal property ; 6 and where... | |
 | Joseph S. Bosworth, New York (State). Superior Court (New York) - 1865 - 776 sider
...sale, it seemingly being unimportant whether a pledge or a mortgage. By the common law, a pledge is a bailment of personal property as a security for some debt or engagement. It is usually confined to chattels. Where real or personal property is transferred by a conveyance... | |
 | Francis Turner - 1866 - 384 sider
...Substantially in harmony with this is the Common Law doctrine, in . which a pawn is considered to be a bailment of personal property as a security for some debt or engagement. Lord Holt, in his celebrated judgment in Coggs v. Bernard (b), mentions Pawn as the fourth class of... | |
 | Charles Daniel Drake - 1866 - 714 sider
...look to the real estate for his security.4 § 538. III. Mortgages and Pledges. A pledge or pawn is a bailment of personal property, as a security for some debt or engagement. A mortgage of goods is distinguishable from a mere pawn. By a grant or conveyance of goods in gage... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - 1871 - 620 sider
...contracts marriage, that terminates the bailment 2 ORDER III— CLASS IV. PLEDGE OR PAWN. § 486. This is a bailment of personal property, as a security for some debt or engagement.3 It will be treated under the following divisions : § 487. — 1. Parties. — The parties... | |
 | William Wait - 1878 - 1026 sider
...GENERAL. Section 1. Definition and natnre. In the common law, a pledge, or pawn, may be defined to be a bailment of personal property, as a security for some debt, or engagement. Story on Bailm., § 286. In other definitions, the term "pledge" is limited to cases where a thing... | |
 | 1883 - 1914 sider
...payment according to the condition, the absolute title, at law, vested in the mortgagee. A pledge is a bailment of personal property as a security for some debt or engagement. It is completed by a delivery of the property; it does not transfer the title; it only gives the pledgee... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (8th Circuit), George Washington McCrary - 1884 - 752 sider
...payment according to the condition, the absolute title, at law, vested in the mortgagee. A pledge is a bailment of personal property as a security for some debt or engagement. It is completed by a delivery of the property ; it does not transfer the title ; it only gives the... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1884 - 704 sider
...Bailments, sec. 290 ; Brewster v. Hartley, 37 Cal. 15. In the latter case the court says: "A pledge is a bailment of personal property as a security for some debt or engagement. * The general property in the thing pledged remains in the pledger, and only a special property vests... | |
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The definition given it by Judge Story is 'a bailment of personal property as a security for some debt or engagement. 
