hypothec
Americannoun
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Roman and Civil Law. a mortgage or security held by a creditor on the property of a debtor without possession of it, created either by agreement or by operation of law.
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(in some modern legal systems) a security interest created in immovable property.
noun
Etymology
Origin of hypothec
1585–95; earlier hypotheca < Late Latin < Greek hypothḗkē deposit, pledge, mortgage (akin to hypotithénai to deposit as pledge). See hypo-, theca
Example Sentences
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And at last, in the village of Ussel, saddle and all, the whole hypothec, turned round and grovelled in the dust below the donkey's belly.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
I suppose that where a merchant does that it is not held to interfere with the landlord's hypothec or his rent?-No.
From Second Shetland Truck System Report by William Guthrie
He is also in favour of the abolition of the laws of entail and hypothec.
From Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans
I would only have lost the expense of my summons, because he had nothing that I could take from him; or if he had anything, his landlord generally came in with his right of hypothec.
From Second Shetland Truck System Report by William Guthrie
If the hale hypothec were to fa', I think, laddie, I would dee!
From Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
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