mortgage security

  • 91mortgage — In the ancient sense, an estate in mortuo vadio or dead pledge. At common law, a qualified estate under a conditional conveyance given by way of security for the performance of an obligation, usually one for the payment of money. In the modern… …

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  • 92security deed — A term probably confined to the state of Georgia and there meaning a deed conveying the legal title to land as security for the payment of a debt. Upon default in payment, the holder of the debt reduces it to judgment, and the holder of the legal …

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  • 93MORTGAGE —    a deed conveying property to a creditor as security for the payment of a debt, the person to whom it is given being called the Mortgagee …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 94mortgage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. pledge, security, encumbrance, loan, bond, debenture; promise. v. borrow, pledge, hypothecate. See debt. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. lease, title, debt; see contract . Types of mortgages include:… …

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  • 95security — n 1. safety, secureness, surety, safeness; invulnerability, impregnability, immunity; unattackability, unassailability, inexpugnability; dependability, reliability, trustiness, trustworthiness; firmness, steadiness, stability, fastness; tightness …

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  • 96mortgage bank — / mɔ:gɪdʒ bæŋk/ noun a bank which lends money to purchasers of properties, on the security of the property …

    Dictionary of banking and finance

  • 97mortgage lien — Encumbrances on property of mortgagor which secures debt obligation. In some states, the mortgagor retains legal title until foreclosure and the mortgagee has a security interest called a lien which is recognized ahead of other claims to the… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 98mortgage lien — Encumbrances on property of mortgagor which secures debt obligation. In some states, the mortgagor retains legal title until foreclosure and the mortgagee has a security interest called a lien which is recognized ahead of other claims to the… …

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  • 99mortgage debentures — Debentures by which specific funds or property are pledged as security. Barton Nat. Bank v Atkins, 72 Vt 33, 45, 47 A 176. A paradoxical expression if the definition of debenture as a bond secured, at best, by a pledge of income be accepted. See… …

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  • 100security interest — noun any interest in a property that secures the payment of an obligation • Hypernyms: ↑interest, ↑stake • Hyponyms: ↑pledge, ↑mortgage, ↑conditional sale, ↑collateral, ↑lien …

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