Mortgage's and the law.
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"A mortgage is a conveyance of land or an assignment of chattels as a security for payment of a debt or the discharge of some other obligation for which it is given. This is the idea of a mortgage; and the security is redeemable on the payment or discharge of such debt or obligation, any provision to the contrary notwithstanding"1 In technical terms, a mortgage is a conveyance of an estate in the land to the mortgage, with a provision that the mortgages interest shall lapse upon repayment of the loan plus interest and costs Once a mortgage is entered into the equity of redemption comes into existence. The equity of redemption is the totality of the mortgagors equitable rights in the land of which the equitable right to redeem is but one. The equitable right to redeem only arises after the legal date for redemption; the equity of redemption arises...

