MORTGAGE Copy link • MORTGAGE 1. s. hypotheca: ☞ pignus means a pledge, and is said of moveable articles; hypotheca only of immoveables; but pignus may be used in the sense of mortgage, when the context fixes the sense; e.g., domum agrosque pignori accipere (Tac.), to take upon mortgage. 2. hypothecam obligare (Pand.); dare aliquid hypothecae (Jurisconsulti); pignerare, oppignerare (domus, agrum): to be mortgaged, hypothecae nomine obligatum esse (Pand.).