vadium vivum

English

Alternative forms

vivum vadium

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin vadium vivum (“living pledge”).

Noun

vadium vivum

(law, historical) A living pledge, which exists where an estate is granted until a debt is paid out of its proceeds.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vadium vivum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)