| A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage [5] | Byran A. Garner | 法律出版社,2003年版 | ①an instrument given to secure the performance of an act; ② collateral used to guarantee repayment of a debt; ③ a surety, or person bound by some type of guaranty (though surety is the proper and the more usual term for this sensal); ④an instrument (such as a strock, a bond , or an option) indicating one of three things: (a) ownership in a firm, (b) a creditior relationship with a firm or with a nationa or local government, or (c) some other rights to ownership. | 786-787 |
Black’s Law
Dictionary[6] | Byran A. Garner | Thomson Reuters,2009年版 | ①collateral given or pledged to guarantee the fulfillment of an obligation; esp., the assurance that a creditor will be repaid (usually with interest) any money or credit extended to a debtor; ② a person who is bond by some kinds of guaranty. | 1475-1478 |
Osborn’s Con-
cise Law Dictionary [7] | Mick Woodley | Sweet & Maxwell,1976年版 | A possession such that the grantee or holder of the security holds as against the grantor a right to resort to some property or some fund for the satisfaction of some demand, after which satisfaction the balance of the property or fund belongs to the grantor. There are thus two persons with an interest but the right of one has precedence over the other. | 301 |
Glossary of
Scottish and
European Union Legal Terms and Latin Phrases [8] | The Law Society of Scotland | Lexis Nexis, 2000年版 | ①something which tends to assure or to secure that an obligation will be performed, being either a personal security (eg a guarantee or cautionary obligation (qv) by a third party) or a real security where rights are granted over the debtor’s property by pledge or heritable security; ② an investment, eg stocks and shares. | 152 |
| Modern Dictionary for the English Profession [9] | Kenneth R.
Redden and
Gerry W. Beyer | William S. Hein& Cp., Inc. 1993年版 | Security also refers to collateral, i.e., property mortgaged against a debt which can be claimed by the lender if the borrower does not play the debt when due. | 698 |
Webster’s Third
New Internation-
al Dictionary[10] | Philip Babcock
Gove | Merriam-Webster, 1981年版 | Something given, deposited, or pledged to make certain fulfillment of an obligation (as the payment of a debt): property given or serving to make secure the enjoyment or enforcement of a right. | 2053 |
