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hypothec
[ hahy-poth-ik, hi- ]
noun
- 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.
- (in some modern legal systems) a security interest created in immovable property.
hypothec
/ ³ó²¹ÉªËˆ±èɒθɪ°ì /
noun
- Roman law Scots law a charge on property in favour of a creditor
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hypothec1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
If the hale hypothec were to fa’, I think, laddie, I would dee!
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.
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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