ROM
PIGNORIS CAPIO, ROM. civil law. The name given to one of the legis actiones
of the Roman law. It consisted chiefly in the taking. of a pledge, and was
in fact a mode of execution. It was confined to special cases determined by
positive law or by custom, such as taxes, duties, rents, &c., and is
comparable in some respects to distresses at common law. The proceeding took
place in the presence of a praetor.
Read Only Memory (
ROM)
CD-ROM,
compact disc read-only memory,
computer memory,
computer science,
computer storage,
computing,
EPROM,
erasable programmable read-only memory,
fixed storage,
memory,
memory board,
read-only memory,
read-only storage,
storage,
store
ROM - (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed