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mortgage

of Louisiana : a blanket mortgage that burdens all present and future property home equity conversion mortgage : reverse mortgage in this entry judicial mortgage in the civil law of Louisiana : a mortgage lien that secures

Constructive notice

stipulation to the contrary, an intended lessee was not entitled to call for the title to the freehold reversion upon a contract for the lease, a lessee who had omitted to make the special stipulation and was

Landlord and tenant

less than the landlord's estate in it, generally upon payment of rent. The landlord's estate is called the reversion, and at common law, a power of distress for rent is incident to the reversion. Leases or tenancies

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Rent

as at the lest, fealty. (2) Rent-charge, where the owner of the rent has no future interest or reversion in the land. It is usually created by deed or will, and was accompanied by express powers of

Expectant heir

interfere between lender and borrower in these cases, and to set aside as 'unconscionable bargains' those mortgages of reversionary interests or other contracts of sale or loan in which the distress of the expectant heir is taken

Apportionment

& 18 Geo. 5, c. 34), s. 20, by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, and neither the reversioner nor the lessee is bound unless he consents or is a party to the proceedings, see Bliss v.

Lease

has greater interest in the property. The person granting is called the lessor, who is possessed of the reversion (as to a reversion being essential to a lease, see 1 Platt on Lease, pp. 9 et seq.);

Recovery

tenant-in-tail in possession enlarged his estate-tail into a fee-simple and so barred the entail, and all remainders and reversions expectant there-on, with all conditions and collateral limitations annexed to them, and subsequent charges sub-ordinate to the entail.

Reduction in rank

has an obvious reference to different grades in service. Whenever there is a reduction in rank it implies reversion from a higher post to a lower post. Reversion from a higher post to a lower post may

Uses

seised to the use. (2) A cestui que use in esse. (3) A use in esse in possession, reversion, or remainder. (4) Every species of realty, except copyholds, whether corporeal or incorporeal, in possession, reversion, or remainder,

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