GAGE, is only now retained as a substantive. As a verb, the G is changed into W, and of gage is formed wage: as to wage law, to wage deliverance, &c. d. to give security a thing shall be delivered. See WAGE.
If a person who has distrained be sued for not having delivered what he had taken by distress, he should wage, or gage, or gager, deliverance; that is, put in surety that he will deliver them.
Mort-Gage, is that which is left in the hands of the proprietor, so that he reaps the fruits thereof.
In opposition to vis-gage, where the fruits or revenues are reaped by the creditor, and reckoned on the foot of the debt, which diminishes in proportion thereto. The second acquits or discharges itself; the first does not.