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To take pledges, "pignora capere," was to seize something that belonged to a man in order to compel the discharge of a duty.

From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Stewart, Aubrey

Quas secum facies, imae mala pignora noctis; Quot secum nigros ducit in arma deos.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

Wilson, who gives an account of this celebration, compares the ancient Roman New Year's, with the mutui amoris pignora which were sent at that season.

From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Hopkins, Edward Washburn