THESAURUS

Nexum Thesaurus

A contract in early Ancient Rome in which the debtor pledged his own person as collateral should he default on his loan (thus risking becoming a slave to the creditor).

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Related dictionary entries include nexus, commodatum, pawn, borrow, vadimonium, mutuary.

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