Wage
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
To give a pledge or security for the performance of anything; as to wage or gage deliverance to wage law, etc. Co. Litt. 294. This word is but little used.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
To give a pledge or security for the performance of anything: as, to wage or gage deliverance, to wage law, etc. Co. Litt. 294. This word is but little used.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In old English law. To give security for the performance of a thing. Wage battel: to give security for joining in the duellum. Wage law: to give security to make one's 1p,w.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
' To pledge, give assurance of security; also, a pledge. Whence wager, and wages, qq. v.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
To give security for. To wage or pledges to try a cause by battel. To of late.