- LawTo grant or convey, as property, for the security of a debt, or other engagement, upon a condition that if the debt or engagement shall be discharged according to the contract, the conveyance shall be void, otherwise to become absolute, subject, however, to the right of redemption.
- Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation.Mortgaging their lives to covetise.I myself an mortgaged to thy will.
