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Blanket mortgage

debts as a group or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien

conversion

tort of interfering with the ownership of another's movable or personal property without authorization or justification (as a lien) and esp. of depriving the owner of use and possession see also fraudulent conversion

Usufructuary mortgage

accruing from the property or any part of such rents and profits and to appropriate the same in lien of interest, or in payment of the mortgage-money, or partly in lieu of interest or partly in payment

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Substantive capacity

means capacity other than an officiating or temporary capacity and would imply that the holder thereof had a lien on his post, Prem Nath Sharma v. Vice-Chancellor, Lucknow, University, AIR 1959 All 618. Substantive capacity, the emphasis

Stop Order

of such tock or funds, or any part thereof, without notice to him. And a person having a lien on a fund in Court may obtain a stop order. See (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XLVI.; and consult

Salvage

allowed by all modern maritime states; the person who saves goods from loss or imminent peril has a lien upon them, and may retain them till payment of salvage. In this, however, the maritime law differs from

Retention

retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right of retention shall be paid; a lien.

Rescission

Lipski, (1901) 2 Ch 666. Where a purchaser rescinds under a power in the contract he has a lien for his deposit, Whitbread & Co. v. Watt, (1902) 1 Ch 835, but before 1926 the purchaser in

Jus offerendi

Jus offerendi, means the right of subrogation; the right to succeed to a senior creditor's lien and priority upon tendering the amount due to that creditor, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 866.

unsecured claim

claim or debt for which a creditor holds no special assurance of payment, such as a mortgage or lien; a debt for which credit was extended based solely upon the creditor's assessment of the debtor's future ability

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