Gage
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
or GAGER (Law Lat. vadium). Personal property placed by a debtor in possession of his creditor as a security for the payment of his debt; a pledge or pawn (g. v.). Glanv. lib.
10, c. 6; Britt. c. 27.
To pledge; to wage.
Webster.
Gager is used both as noun and verb; «• 9; gager del ley, wager of law. Jacob. Gager ley, to wage law. Britt. c.
27.
Gager deliverance, to put in sureties to deliver cattle distrained. Termes de la Ley; Kitch. Cts. fol.
145; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. fols. 67, 74.
A mortgage is a dead gage or pledge; for, whatsoever profit it yields, it redeems not itself, unless the whole amount secured is paid at the appointed time.
Cowell.