单词 | muchalka |
释义 | muchalkan. Chiefly Anglo-Indian. Now rare. A written bond. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > [noun] recognizancea1325 surety1417 band1521 estatute1584 bond1592 reconnoissance1666 muchalka1679 personal recognizance1818 1679 J. Charnock Let. 13 Oct. in R. C. Temple Diaries of Streynsham Master (1911) II. 273 He would order an account to be taken of our petre, and then take a Mochelke of us and dispatch our books. 1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1844) I. 323 The soubahdar insisting upon the man giving a muckelka [sic] to produce the stolen goods was an assumption of authority, highly unwarrantable. 1818 T. Munro in G. R. Gleig Life (1849) 265 Lord B—— told me that I should have ten thousand pagodas per annum, and all my expenses paid;..I never thought of taking a Muchalka from Lord B——, because [etc.]. 1855 H. H. Wilson Gloss. Judicial & Revenue Terms India 348/1 Muchalka, a written obligation or agreement, a bond, a deed;..commonly..a counterpart covenant on the part of the proprietors or cultivators of land, agreeing to the rates of assessment imposed by the government. 1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson 578/2 Moochulka, a written obligation or bond. 2001 Times of India (Nexis) 22 Feb. Most of them were sent to jail since they failed to produce muchalka (bailbond). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1679 |
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