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interest

or judicial means without any agreement providing for security (as in the case of a tax lien or judgment lien), a security interest and lien may inhere in the same claim, as when a mortgage comprises both a

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creditor

: a creditor who is not secured by a lien or other security interest called also unsecured creditor judgment creditor : a creditor who has a money judgment entered against the debtor and may enforce the judgment

mortgage

in this entry judicial mortgage in the civil law of Louisiana : a mortgage lien that secures a judgment debt and is created by filing a judgment with the recorder of mortgages junior mortgage : second mortgage

secure

the payment, performance, or execution of with security [the court imposed a lien on his property to the judgment] c : to give or pledge security to (as a creditor) ;broadly : to cause to have security

Charging order

payment of the costs is barred by any statute of limitations. See Cordery on Solicitors; Atkinson on Solicitors' Lien. Partners.--Under s. 23 of the (English) Partnership Act, 1890, separate judgment creditors of a partner may obtain an … Charging order, an order obtained from a court or judge under the (English) Judgments Acts, 1838 and 1840 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), s. 14, and (3 & 4 Vict. c.

Incumbrance

Incumbrance, a claim, lien, or liability attached to property; as a mortgage, a registered judgment, etc. This is the sense in which the term is ordinarily used. An encumbrance in this sense has

terre tenant

one in actual possession of land ;specif : one who purchases land after a lien of mortgage or judgment has attached used chiefly in the law of Pennsylvania

Wages

if he were of full age. Wages of any 'servant, labourer, or workman' cannot be attached to satisfy judgments, (English) Wages Attachment Abolition Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 30). Seamen have a lien on the

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