Mortgage law
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mortgage-law-173-10327030
title:
Mortgage law
text:
A mortgage is a legal instrument of the common law which is used to create a security interest in real property held by a lender as a security for a debt, usually a mortgage loan. Hypothec is the corresponding term in civil law jurisdictions, albeit with a wider sense, as it also covers non-possessory lien. A mortgage in itself is not a debt, it is the lender's security for a debt. It is a transfer of an interest in land from the owner to the mortgage lender, on the condition that this interest
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Legal mechanisms used to secure the performance of obligations
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage_law
date created:
2003-07-02T15:15:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T11:57:56Z
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