2. Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to
make subject to a claim or obligation.
Mortgaging their lives to covetise. --Spenser.
I myself an mortgaged to thy will. --Shak.
Note: It was called a mortgage (or dead pledge) because,
whatever profit it might yield, it did not thereby
redeem itself, but became lost or dead to the mortgager
upon breach of the condition. But in equity a right of
redemption is an inseparable incident of a mortgage
until the mortgager is debarred by his own laches, or
by judicial decree. --Cowell. Kent.
2. State of being pledged; as, lands given in mortgage.
{Chattel mortgage}. See under {Chattel}.
{To foreclose a mortgage}. See under {Foreclose}.
{Mortgage deed} (Law), a deed given by way of mortgage.
2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]
They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record
her hymns, and chant her carols blest. --Fairfax.
3. To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to
printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to
write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose
of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to
enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to
record historical events.
Those things that are recorded of him . . . are
written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i.
42.
{To record a deed}, {mortgage}, {lease}, etc., to have a copy
of the same entered in the records of the office
designated by law, for the information of the public.