Plebeians
or PLEBS, in ancient Rome, one of the great orders of the Roman people, at first excluded from nearly all the rights of citizenship. The whole government of the state, with the enjoyment of all its offices, belonged exclusively to the patricians, with whom the plebeians could not even intermarry. increased, but not sufficiently to answer The Lex Hortensia (286 B. C) gave the the requirements of the children. The plebiscita, or enactments passed at the success attending the experiment in plebeian assemblies, the force of law. New York led other large cities, both From this time the privileges of the American and European to establish two classes may be said to have been playgrounds. In 1920 nearly all cities equal. in the United States having a population PLEDGE, the transfer of a chattel of over 50,000 had made some provision for playgrounds and for the most part they have had paid supervision. In 1907 the Playground and Recreation Society of America was founded and began to publish a monthy magazine, "The Playground."
The ownership and management of the from a debtor to a creditor as a security of a debt, or that which is pledged or pawned as security for the repayment of money borrowed, or for the performance of some obligation or engagement; a pawn. Pledges are generally goods and chattels, but anything valuable of a personal nature, as money, negotiable PLEIADES instruments, etc., may be given in pledge. A living pledge (vadium vivum) is one which produces an income, interest, or profit by being used, and which is retained by the pledgee till he shall have satisfied his claim out of such income, profit, or interest; a dead pledge (vadium mortuum) is a mortgage.