Pledge
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A pledge is an oath. Pledge or The pledge may also refer to:
- a prospective member of college Fraternities and sororities
- a Toast (honor) during the act of drinking in honor of someone
- a warrant or assurance, now used especially in fundraising for charitable purposes
- An item to be sold to a pawnbroker
- in the context of common law, a pledge is used to refer to a security interest in movable property, with an important feature of possession by the pledgee (lender),[1] as compared to the mortgage which is the security interest in immovable property, although mortgage can refer to movable property (chattel mortgage). The language dates back to ancient Roman law.[2]
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In popular culture
- Pledge of Allegiance, used in the United States
- The "Teetotal Pledge" or "The Pledge", of abstinence from alcohol, taken by many Catholics in the 19th and 20th centuries, in a movement started by Theobald Mathew (temperance reformer) in Ireland in 1838.
- "The Pledge" of abstinence from alcohol, signed by members of the UK Band of Hope (1847-), now Hope UK
- Singapore National Pledge
- Pledge (law), a bailment of personal property as a security for a debt
- Pledge (brand), household cleaning products made by S. C. Johnson & Son
- Pledge Algorithm, for computerised maze solving
- The Pledge (New Hampshire) - a statement by politicians in the U.S. state of New Hampshire not to support broad-based taxes
In media
- The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel, a detective novella by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
- The Pledge (film), a film, directed by Sean Penn, based on the Dürrenmatt book
- The Pledge [Remix], a song on the album Last Temptation by American rapper Ja Rule
- A Gunfighter's Pledge, a 2008 TV movie, the working title was "The Pledge"
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References
- ^ Gillooly M. (1994). Securities over personalty, pp. 126-30. Centre for Commercial and Resources Law. Google Books preview.
- ^ Sherman CP. (1922). Roman law in the modern world, volume 2. Page 181-2. Free full-text available at Google Books. For a modern source using the terminology, see: Hoshi T. (2006). Creditor Rights and Credit Creation by Banks in Transition Economies: Evidence from Banking Environment and Performance Survey. NBER. Free full-text.