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Bemire

To drag through encumber with or fix in the mire to soil by passing through mud or dirt...

power 1 : capability of acting or of producing an effect [parties of unequal bargaining ] 2 a : authority or capacity to act that is delegated by law or constitution often used in pl. commerce power often cap C&P : the power delegated to Congress under Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution to regulate commerce esp. among the states see also commerce clause concurrent power : a power that is held simultaneously by more than one entity ;specif : a power delegated to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution that is also held by the states enu·mer·at·ed powers [i-nü-mə-rā-təd-, -nyü-] : the powers specifically named and delegated to the federal government or prohibited to be exercised by the states under the U.S. Constitution compare reserved powers in this entry executive power : the power delegated to the executive of a government ;specif : any or all of the powers delegated to the president under Article II of the U.S...

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...

incumber

incumber var of encumber ...

let

let let let·ting vt 1 : to offer or grant for rent, lease, or hire : lease [may not be alienated, , or encumbered] [corporeal things may be out] 2 : to assign esp. after bids [were attempting to a contract without going through the bidding process "Union Springs Tel. Co. v. Rowell, 623 So. 2d 732 (1993)"] vi 1 : to become rented, leased, or hired 2 : to become awarded to a contractor ...

tenancy

tenancy pl: -cies 1 : the holding of or a mode of holding an estate in property: a : a form of ownership of property : tenure b : the temporary possession or occupancy of property that belongs to another holdover tenancy : a tenancy that arises when one remains in possession of property after the expiration of the previous tenancy (as one under a lease), that may be established as a tenancy at will by the recognition of the landlord (as by accepting rent), and that may sometimes be statutorily converted to a periodic tenancy for the same or a different term than that of the original tenancy [liable for payment of rent in a holdover tenancy] called also tenancy at sufferance joint tenancy : a tenancy in which two or more parties hold equal and simultaneously created interests in the same property and in which title to the entire property is to remain to the survivors upon the death of one of them (as a spouse) and so on to the last survivor [a right to sever the joint tenancy]...

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