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seller take back

second mortgage financing. These are often combined with an assumed mortgage instead of a portion of the seller's equity. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

shareholder

a share in a fund (as a mutual fund) or property ;esp : stockholder see also derivative action, equity, proxy contest share·hold·ing adj or n

trust

similar to a closed-end investment company except that it invests in real estate either as an owner having equity in the property or as a lender holding mortgages on the property resulting trust : an implied trust

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undue influence

another's choice or desire for the person's own compare coercion, duress, necessity NOTE: It is a doctrine of equity that a contract, deed, donation, or testamentary disposition can be set aside if the court finds that someone

use

que use analogous to a beneficial interest in a trust : use re·sult·ing use : a use that equity attributes back to a grantor when there is no person declared to receive it or no transfer of

wrong

rights of another ;esp : tort 2 : something (as conduct, practices, or qualities) contrary to justice, goodness, equity, or law [the difference between right and ] vt : to do a wrong to : treat with

Casuistry

by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures from the laws of society or the church or from equity and natural reason the application of general moral rules to particular cases

Chancellor

A judicial court of chancery which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction

Equitable

Possessing or exhibiting equity according to natural right or natural justice marked by a due consideration for what is fair unbiased or

lien

: a lien against property that does not require possession of the property and that is available in equity to prevent unjust enrichment factor's lien : a lien against property held on consignment by a factor conferring

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