Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. Assurance is used in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited.
Subjective certainty of one's salvation.
The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence.
Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty.
Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity
Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.
Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
An offer to make oath.
That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
To suppose; to dare say.
To bet something; to put it up as collateral.