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Definition of wager
wa´ger Pronunciation: wā´jẽrd | n. | 1. | | | 1. | Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge. | | 2. | (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. | | 3. | That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.| Wager of battel | | (O. Eng. Law) the giving of gage, or pledge, for trying a cause by single combat, formerly allowed in military, criminal, and civil causes. 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. 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. See Battel. |
| | v. t. | 1. | 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. | | v. i. | 1. | To make a bet; to lay a wager. |
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