#financial pledge

• Reserved with a deposit — Having been reserved, secured, or guaranteed through the payment of an advance sum (earnest money); a regional phonetic variant of the word 'arvunit'. In a commercial structural context, the term describes the state of a good, merchandise, or service that is no longer available for free sale, because a buyer has already offered a confirmed financial pledge to secure their exclusive right of subsequent purchase.
• Earnest money — An old graphical and phonetic variant of the word 'arvună' (a sum of money or goods paid in advance to secure a transaction, close a contract, or hire labor). This term appears frequently in medieval commercial manuscripts from Moldavia and Wallachia, representing the customary legal pledge through which parties mutually blocked their right to withdraw from an agreement without penalties.