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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

Adequate protection

a holder of a secured claim against the debtor, such as a periodic cash payment or an additional lien e.g. bankruptcy court permitted the lender to foreclose on the debtor's home after finding a lack of adequate

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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.

terre tenant

tenir to hold] : 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

title 1

improvements (like renovations or repairs) to their home; Title I loans less than $7,500 don't require a property lien. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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

recordation

recordation : the act or process of recording [ of a lien]

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

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

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