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hypothec

[hahy-poth-ik, hi-]

noun

  1. 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.

  2. (in some modern legal systems) a security interest created in immovable property.



hypothec

/ haɪˈpɒθɪk /

noun

  1. Roman law Scots law a charge on property in favour of a creditor

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hypothec1

1585–95; earlier hypotheca < Late Latin < Greek hypothḗkē deposit, pledge, mortgage (akin to hypotithénai to deposit as pledge). See hypo-, theca
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hypothec1

C16: from Late Latin hypotheca a security, from Greek hupothēkē deposit, pledge, from hupotithenai to deposit as a security, place under, from hypo- + tithenai to place
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Example Sentences

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Hypothec, hī-poth′ek, n. in Scotch law, a lien or security over goods in respect of a debt due by the owner of the goods.—adj.

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In French law the landlord’s claim for rent is fairly secured by the hypothec, and by summary powers which exist for the seizure of the effects of defaulting tenants.

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If the hale hypothec were to fa’, I think, laddie, I would dee!

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There was a square of modern offices, in which the cattle and horses of the farm—appropriated by the landlord, at the time under the law of hypothec—were tolerably well lodged; but the hovel in which three of the farm-servants lived, and in which, for want of a better, my master and I had to cook and sleep, was one of the most miserable tumble-down erections I ever saw inhabited.

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It will afford Biographies of Eminent Highlanders at home and abroad—Reviews of all Books on subjects interesting to the Celtic Races—their Literature, questions affecting the Land—Hypothec, Entail, Tenant-right, Sport, Reclamation—Emigration, and all questions affecting Landlords, Tenants, and Commerce of the Highlands.

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