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Hypothecation

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

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

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