chattel mortgage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of chattel mortgage
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
Example Sentences
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The lenders were told if anything went wrong, they could always claim the motorhome, with their right to it listed in a legal document called a chattel mortgage, which was filed at Companies House.
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Most of their possessions had been sold, as a chattel mortgage had been given as a last resort to raise the cash for the interest.
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I had a chattel mortgage, too, so I got all his fixin's.
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The clerks of the justices of the peace, intrusted with the delicate and novel functions of registrars of chattel mortgages, are, as a rule, little fitted to perform them.
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In the North and West, there are a great mass of farmers' chattel mortgage loans, including loans on horses, grain in cribs, hogs, sheep, cattle, mules, etc.
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