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Webster 1913 Edition


Wadset

Wad′set

,
Noun.
[Scot.
wad
a pledge; akin to Sw.
vad
a wager. See
Wed
.]
(Scots Law)
A kind of pledge or mortgage.
[Written also
wadsett
.]

Definition 2024


wadset

wadset

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Noun

wadset (plural wadsets)

  1. (obsolete, Scotland) The conveyance of land in pledge for a debt; a mortgage

Verb

wadset (third-person singular simple present wadsets, present participle wadsetting, simple past and past participle wadsetted)

  1. (obsolete, Scotland) To mortgage land

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