#WAGER MEANING TRIAL#

transitive verb To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some eventuality to lay to stake to bet.ДЇrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.intransitive verb To make a bet to lay a wager.Other wagering contracts and bets are now generally made illegal by statute against betting and gambling, and wagering has in many cases been made a criminal offence. Contracts of this nature include various common forms of valid commercial contracts, as contracts of insurance, contracts dealing in futures, options, etc. noun A contract which is of the nature of wager.noun (Law) the giving of gage, or sureties, by a defendant in an action of debt, that at a certain day assigned he would take a law, or oath, in open court, that he did not owe the debt, and at the same time bring with him eleven neighbors (called compurgators), who should avow upon their oaths that they believed in their consciences that he spoke the truth.The wager of battel, which has been long in disuse, was abolished in England in 1819, by a statute passed in consequence of a defendant's having waged his battle in a case which arose about that period.

#WAGER MEANING TRIAL#

In writs of right, where the trial was by champions, the tenant produced his champion, who, by throwing down his glove as a gage, thus waged, or stipulated, battle with the champion of the demandant, who, by taking up the glove, accepted the challenge. Law) the giving of gage, or pledge, for trying a cause by single combat, formerly allowed in military, criminal, and civil causes. noun (Law) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.noun Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question a bet a stake a pledge.noun In old English law, an offer to make oath of innocence or non-indebtedness also, the act of making such oath, the oaths of eleven compurgators being conjoined as fortifying the defendant's oath.ДЇrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.noun That on which bets are laid the subject of a bet.noun Something hazarded on an uncertain event a Stake.To make a wager on bet on: followed by a clause as object: as, I wager you are wrong.To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty bet lay stake.intransitive verb To risk or stake (an amount or possession) on an uncertain outcome bet.noun Archaic A pledge of personal combat to resolve an issue or case.noun Something that is staked on an uncertain outcome a bet.noun An agreement under which each bettor pledges a certain amount to the other depending on the outcome of an unsettled matter.From The American HeritageВ® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

Wager meaning