Mortuum Vadium
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A dead pledge; a mortgage (q. v.); a pledge where the profits or rents of the thing pledged are not applied to the payment of the indebtedness secured, thereby differing from a vivum vadium, q. v.