hypothec: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words

Suffixes of hypothec

  • hypothecation
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    hypothecation

    (Civ. Law) The act or contract by which property is hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his debtor, in virtue of which he may cause it to be sold and the price appropriated in payment of his debt. This is a right in the thing, or jus in re. Pothier. B. R. Curtis.
    There are but few cases, if any, in our law, where an hypothecation, in the strict sense of the Roman law, exists; that is a pledge without possession by the pledgee. Story.
    ✍ In the modern civil law, this contract has no application to movable property, not even to ships, to which and their cargoes it is most frequently applied in England and America. See Hypothecate. B. R. Curtis. Domat.
  • hypothecated
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    hypothecate

    • verb pledge without delivery or title of possession
    • verb to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
      conjecture; theorize; hypothesize; theorise; hypothesise; suppose; speculate.
      • Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps
  • hypothecate
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    hypothecate

    • verb pledge without delivery or title of possession
    • verb to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
      conjecture; theorize; hypothesize; theorise; hypothesise; suppose; speculate.
      • Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps
  • hypotheca
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    hypotheca

    (Rom. Law) An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt. ✍ It differed from pledge in regard to possession of the property subject to the obligation; pledge requiring, simple hypotheca not requiring, possession of it by the creditor. The modern mortgage corresponds very closely with it. Kent.

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