Mortuum Vadium
Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A mortgage. MORTUUS (Lat.) Dead. Ainsworth. So in sheriff's return m.ortuus est, he is dead. O. Bridg. 469; Brooke, Abr. "Retorne de Brief e," pi. 125; 19 Viner, Abr. "Return," lib. 2, pi. 12.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A mortgage. M0RTUU8 (Lat). Dead. Ainsworth, Lex. So in Sheriff’s return mortuua est, be is dead. O. Bridgm. 469; Brooke, Abr. Retome de Brief e, pi. 125; 19 Viner, Abr. Return, lib. 2, pi. 12.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
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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.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A dead pledge; amortgage, (q. v.;) a pledge where the profits or rents of the thing pledged are not applied to the payment of the debt.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
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.