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Fetterer

One who fetters

Fettered

Seeming as if fettered as the feet of certain animals which bend backward and appear unfit for walking

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Fetters

Fetterless

Free from fetters

impeach

impeach [Anglo-French empecher, from Old French empeechier to hinder, from Late Latin impedicare to fetter, from Latin in- + pedica fetter, from ped- pes foot] 1 : to charge with a crime or

Bind

To tie or confine with a cord band ligature chain etc to fetter to make fast as to bind grain in bundles to bind a prisoner

Gyve

A shackle especially one to confine the legs a fetter

Immanacle

To manacle to fetter hence to confine to restrain from free action

Clog on equity of redemption

or performance of the debt or obligation for which the security was given is called a 'clog' or fetter on the equity of redemption, and is void; see Santley v. Wilde, (1899) 2 Ch 474. The question

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