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An invariable rule of customary pledge
Effect of a pledged land
Effect of the redemption of a pledge by a third party
Features of customary pledge
Position of the law where pledgor seeks to redeem the pledge
Principles governing Customary Pledge
The party with the burden of proving a pledge; elements of a customary pledge
The position of the law where a member of a family either redeems pledged property from a pledgee of the family or buys family pledged property
The principle that a customary pledge is perpetually redeemable
The principle that an averment of pledge needs to be proven
What a party alleging a pledge must prove
What customary pledge entails
Whether a customary pledgee is entitled to take possession of the house and to collect the rents without accounting to the pledgor
Whether a customary pledge for a long period of time is invalid
Whether a pledgee can plant economic crops on the pledged land
Whether a pledgor's right to redeem can be obstructed by the pledgee's planting of economic trees and development of the pledged land.
Whether lapse of time is a bar to the redemption of a customary pledge
Whether the fact that the pledgee has spent money to improve the property bars the pledgor from recovering the property upon payment of the debt
Whether the pledgor's right of redemption can be clogged
Whether the proof of customary pledge must include the fact that such a pledge took place in the presence of witnesses
Whether the successors of the original owners can exercise their right to redeem a pledged property whenever they decide to do so
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