chattel mortgage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of chattel mortgage
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
A greenhorn owns the truck which it even got a chattel mortgage on it.
From The Competitive Nephew by Glass, Montague
He could get 'em on the installment plan and give back a chattel mortgage, Abe.
From Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Glass, Montague
He was to pay the rent, receiving a sub-lease from Bohlmann, who was only a lesee himself, and to give a chattel mortgage on the stock supplied him.
From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Ford, Paul Leicester
"I see," he said, "you are only the caretaker really, the brewer having an assignment of the lease and a chattel mortgage on your fixtures and stock."
From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Ford, Paul Leicester
I didn’t know for a long time where Mr. Maxwell 298 got the money for me but after a while I discovered that he’d given a chattel mortgage on his books and personal belongings.
From Hepsey Burke by Westcott, Frank N. (Frank Noyes)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
