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mortgage
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Word definitions for mortgage in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., morgage , "conveyance of property as security for a loan or agreement," from Old French morgage (13c.), mort gaige , literally "dead pledge" (replaced in modern Frech by hypothèque ), from mort "dead" (see mortal (adj.)) + gage "pledge" (see ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a conditional conveyance of property as security for the repayment of a loan
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mortgage may refer to: Mortgage loan , a loan secured by a mortgage on real property Mortgage, a security interest on real property grant to a lender, as in mortgage law Deed , the mortgage document Hypothec , a specie of encumbrance
Usage examples of mortgage.
A man allers hates one who holds a mortgage against him which is sure to be foreclosed.
The steps taken by Molineux, and agreed to by the bankrupt, were as follows: The suit relating to the mortgage on the property in the Faubourg du Temple having been won in the courts, the assignees decided to sell that property, and Cesar made no opposition.
The fact is, that ten thousand of his money is on the Jotley property, and both Bellamy and myself are anxious that it should stop there for the present, as if the mortgage were called in it might be awkward.
Omni is the owner and controller of retail chain stores, banks, mortgage companies, fast food chains, soft drink bottlers, you name it.
Louise was reflecting that she could sell it and buy a maisonette or flat for much less, anywhere she chose, needing no mortgage, invest the rest and live off the income.
He had paid those mortgages out of capital, and the sum represented just about the cost of the site Minks mentioned.
Shandon, the day before his death, mortgaged the Bar L-M to me for twenty-five thousand.
Did you know that the Bar L-M was mortgaged to Martin Leland for twenty-five thousand dollars?
Arthur mortgaged the Bar L-M to your father for twenty-five thousand dollars.
If you see a place all gone to wrack and ruin, its mortgaged you may depend.
He had mortgaged his ancestral estates in County Clare to the tune of ten thousand pounds in order to aid the Spanish insurgents against Frederick the Seventh.
The plantation was mortgaged, he was in debt up to his ears, and the entire tobacco crop was valueless.
Petersburg to arrange for the sale of all the property which has been mortgaged to myself.
So soon as they saw I was to make money they doubled the tariff--all the traffic would bear--and I mortgaged to S.
Barclay, observing his depression and worming out of the colonel the cause, persuaded General Hendricks to put the overdraft and the second mortgage note into one note for a thousand dollars plus the interest for sixty days until the colonel could make a turn, and after that the colonel was happy again.