- pignorative contract
- /pignareytav kontrsekt/In the civil law, a contract of pledge, hypothecation, or mortgage of realty. In such contract the nominal vendor continues to be the owner and the nominal purchaser has only a pledge or mortgage for his debt which he must enforce in the usual way. Jackson v. Golson, La.App., 91 So.2d 394, 399
Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.