Stake
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A sum of money or other valuable thing, the ownership of which is in dispute, or to which one or more have contributed, or ow Ti, who agree that it shall of an event at present uncertain. The person chosen as custodian of the property is called the stateholder (g. v.) 81 N. Y. 539.