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repledge
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[], (Noun)
Definitions:
- The act or an instance of repledging an asset, already serving as collateral for an existing loan, to secure another loan.
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Origin
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late 19th century; earliest use found in Harvard Law Review. From repledge, after pledge
[], (Verb)
Definitions:
- To transfer (a person or cause) from the jurisdiction of another court to one's own, giving a surety that justice will be done, typically within a year and a day. Also without object.
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late Middle English; earliest use found in Acts of Parliament of Scotland. From Anglo-Norman replegger, Anglo-Norman and Middle French repleger, Middle French replegier to replevy, to secure the release of a person arrested or of property (movable or immovable) seized in distraint against the provision of sureties, probably partly via post-classical Latin replegiare to replevy, to guarantee, to withdraw from the jurisdiction of another court to one's own
[], (Verb)
Definitions:
- To pledge again or once more.
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Origin
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mid 18th century; earliest use found in Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), writer. From re- + pledge
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