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At Rome, pledges were customary, as a security for money due, on condition of their restoration after the payment of a debt. By the pactum antichresis, the creditor was allowed to take the profits in lieu of the interest on his debt; by the lex commissoria, the thing pledged became the absolute property of the creditor if the debt was not paid at the time agreed on.
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