See Also: VADIUM, contracts(law)
VADIUM VIVUM, contracts(law)
VADIUM MORTUUM, contracts(law)
VIVUM VADIUM, or living pledge, contracts(law)
MORTUUM VADIUM(law)
SET, contracts(law)
BID, contracts(law)
BAR, contracts(law)
EXECUTION, contracts(law)
DISSOLUTION, contracts(law)

tracing (iou) and VADIUM, contracts (law)


tracing (iou)



tracing noun. LME.
[from TRACE verb1 + -ING1.]
a. Drawing, delineation; the copying of a drawing etc. by means of a transparent sheet placed over it. LME.
b. That which is produced by tracing or drawing; spec. a copy made by tracing; a recording from a self-registering instrument. LME.
c. The marking out of a figure on the ice when skating; a pattern thus made. E20.
The following of traces, tracking. Formerly also (in pl.), traces, tracks. E16.
The procedure of making a list of all the headings under which a given item occurs in an index or catalogue; an entry in such a list. E20.
The following of the course of the groove on a gramophone record by a stylus. Freq. in tracing distortion below. M20.
Computing. The process of performing a trace (TRACE noun1 9). M20.
Comb.: tracing distortion: occurring when a stylus does not describe exactly the same path as the groove on a gramophone record; tracing-paper translucent paper for copying drawings etc. by tracing; tracing table: having a translucent top illuminated from underneath; tracing-wheel a toothed wheel or roulette for marking out patterns.

VADIUM, contracts (law)


VADIUM, contracts. A pledge, or surety.