chattel mortgage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of chattel mortgage
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
Example Sentences
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When a loan application has been acted upon favorably, a promissory note and chattel mortgage are taken.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur
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
If we don’t have a good season this summer we will be unable to pay off the chattel mortgage next winter, and will lose the boats.
From Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club by Marlowe, Amy Bell
A husband may give a chattel mortgage to his wife, and she in turn can give one to him.
From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Bolles, Albert Sidney
It is the opinion of Dr. J. E. Pope that fully two-thirds of the aggregate loans on live-stock chattel mortgage security are to breeders rather than to feeders, and hence are not liquid.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
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