3 April 1804

Evidence

Forthcomingness

Ch.6. Appearance

§.1. Pledges

A personal pledge for the performance of any act is understood to be given, when without actual deposition /deposition made/ of any portion of the matter of wealth, third persons one or more engage /bind/ themselves in the character of sponsors for the performance of the act on the part of the /their/ principal viz: the person in whose favour they are thus bound: the condition of the obligation being such, that if the act be performed in due manner and due time, then no further prejudice shall be sustained by them, and the obligation shall be understood to be at an end; but that in the opposite case, that some further specific inconvenience shall be cast upon them; for example the obligation of parting with a specific /specified/ portion of the matter of wealth, in the shape of a sum of money or otherwise, to be made over, on the score of satisfaction, to the party prejudice by such failure, as before.