pledgorn.
/ˈplɛdʒə/, U.S. /ˈplɛdʒər/ Law.
A person who deposits something as a pledge. Cf. pledger n. 2.
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1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxv. 396 In case of goods pledged or pawned upon condition, either to repay money or otherwise; both the pledgor and pledgee have a qualified, but neither of them an absolute, property therein.
1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) ii. §64 This..may be said to rest on the assent of the pledgor..which empowered the pledgee to sell in default of payment.
1927 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 21 334 Articles 11 and 12 are concerned with limitations on the freedom of action of the pledgor and of the pledgee's representatives.
1967 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 30 237/2 Tenancies are then distinguished from other similar relationships, such as that..between pledgor and pledgee.
2002 P. C. Harding & C. A. Johnson Mastering Collateral Managem. iii. 50 New York law permits the secured party to dispose of the collateral to satisfy the pledgor's obligations to it.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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