An area used for lodging; a place in which a person or thing is or can be lodged.
- See also quotations under lodgement.
The condition of being lodged.
The act of lodging or depositing.
- 2013, Pat J. Barrett, Summary Judgment in Ireland: Principles and Defences, Bloomsbury Professional, section 1.101, https://books.google.ca/books?id=M-yVAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
The court may also decide to grant leave to defend, or to grant a stay on an order for judgment, conditional upon a cash lodgment being made by the defendant.
(military, historical) The occupation of a position by a besieging party, and the works thrown up to maintain it.