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Once Action Rule

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Once action rule, means in debtor-creditor law the principle that when a debt is secured by real property the creditor must foreclose on the collateral before proceeding against the debtor's unsecured assets, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1116.

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