Mortgage
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Mortuum vadium, /. A dead pledge; one where the rents and profits did not go to the discharge of the debt. A conveyance of land defeasible on the performance of a certain condition; usually the payment of money.