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Definition of "nexum" [nexum]

  • A contract in early Ancient Rome in which the debtor pledged his own person as collateral should he default on his loan (thus risking becoming a slave to the creditor). (noun)

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Use "nexum" in a sentence
  • "At that time the need for labor on the estates of wealthy Romans would have been met by citizens who had fallen into debt-bondage, nexum, which is also mentioned in the Twelve Tables."
  • "The San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall, up a steep, tree-lined and particularly Hitchcockian street in North Beach, has become a sound-art nexus in a city with more than its fair share of sound-art nexuses nexi? nexes? nexum?"
  • "For a loyal person and for a person restored to allegiance there shall be the same right (_ius_) of bond (_nexum_) and of conveyance"