What does impignorate mean?
Impignorate means (obsolete, UK, chiefly Scotland, law, transitive) To pledge or pawn..
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(obsolete, UK, chiefly Scotland, law, transitive) To pledge or pawn..
the actial delivery to the lender of the impignorated lands — is clearly the feature of the deed, and the transaction may therefore be described more accurately as a pawn or wadset than as a mortgage in its modern sense
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Impignorate means (obsolete, UK, chiefly Scotland, law, transitive) To pledge or pawn..
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the actial delivery to the lender of the impignorated lands — is clearly the feature of the deed, and the transaction may therefore be described more accurately as a pawn or wadset than as a mortgage in its modern sense
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