Mortuum Vadium
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
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In old English law
A dead pledge; a mart gage, or mortgage. Mortnum Tadium dicitur illud cujns fructus Tel reditus interim percepti in nu Uo se acquietant: that is called a dead pledge, the pi'oflts or rents of which, received in the meantime, in no respect discharge it.