Balloon Mortgage - Law Dictionary Search Results
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mortgage
mortgage [Anglo-French, from Old French, from mort dead (from Latin mortuus) + gage security] 1 a : a conveyance of title to property that is given to secure an obligation (as a debt) and that is defeated upon payment or performance according to stipulated terms [shows that a deed was intended only as a "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] b : a lien against property that is granted to secure an obligation (as a debt) and that is extinguished upon payment or performance according to stipulated terms [creditors with valid s against the debtor's property "J. H. Williamson"] c : a loan secured by a mortgage [applied for a ] adjustable rate mortgage : a mortgage having an interest rate which is usually initially lower than that of a mortgage with a fixed rate but which is adjusted periodically according to an index (as the cost of funds to the lender) balloon mortgage : a mortgage having the interest paid periodically and the principal paid in one lump sum at the end of the term of the lo...
balloon payment
balloon payment the final lump sum payment due at the end of a balloon mortgage. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
balloon loan or mortgage
balloon loan or mortgage a mortgage that typically offers low rates for an initial period of time (usually 5, 7, or 10) years; after that time period elapses, the balance is due or is refinanced by the borrower. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
balloon
balloon : being or having a final installment that is much larger than preceding ones in an installment or term loan [a payment] NOTE: In contrast to an amortized loan, a balloon loan is generally repaid in periodic payments of interest and a large, lump sum payment of principal at the end of the term. ...
Ballooning
The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them the sport of riding in balloons...
Mortgage
Mortgage [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and gage, pledge], a deed pledge; a thing put into the hands of a creditor.A mortgage is the creation of an interest in property, defeasible (i.e., annullable) upon performing the condition of paying a given sum of money, with interest thereon, at a certain time. This conditional assurance is resorted to when a debt has been incurred, or a loan of money or credit effected, in order to secure either the repayment of the one or the liquidation of the other. the debtor, or borrower, is then the mortgagor, who has charged or transferred his property in favour of or to the creditor or lender, who thus becomes the mortgagee. If the mortgagor pay the debtor loan and interest within the time mentioned in a clause technically called the proviso for redemption, he will be entitled to have his property again free from the mortgagee's claim; but should he not comply with such proviso, the legal estate becomes perfected in the mortgagee, i.e., indefeasible, and so los...
Equitable mortgage
Equitable mortgage, a mortgage under which the mortgagee does not get the legal estate. The following mortgages are equitable:-(1) Where the subject of a mortgage is trust property, which security is effected either by a formal deed or a written memorandum, notice being given to the trustees in order to preserve the priority. As a rule these mortgages include mortgages (not being mortgages of a legal estate) under a trust for sale or settlement which are not registrable under the (English) L.C. Act, 1925, s. 10, Class C.(2) Where the subject of the mortgage is an equity of redemption, which is merely a right to bring an action in the Chancery Division to redeem the estate. Now under the (English) L.P. Act, 1925, Sched. I., Parts VII. (1), (3), and VIII. (1), (3), and see ss. 85, 86, ibid., a mortgagor retains a legal estate in fee simple or for a term of years, and the first and subsequent mortgagees out of that estate each have a legal mortgage.(3) Where mortgages created before 1925 ...
Ballooned
Swelled out like a balloon...
Ballooner
One who goes up in a balloon an aeumlronaut...
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