 | George Shall Yerger, Tennessee. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1833 - 640 pages
...barred by the statute of limitations. Chancellor Kent in his Commentaries, describes a mortgage to be the conveyance of an estate by way of pledge for the security of a debt, and to become void on the payment of it; the legal ownership is vested in the creditor, but... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Civics - 1835 - 316 pages
...mortgages, are recorded by the clerks of the ssveral counties, in books provided for that purpose. A mortgage is the conveyance of an estate, by way...of debt, and to become void on the payment of it. The condition upon which the land is conveyed is usually inserted in the deed of conveyance, but the... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Political Science - 1836 - 334 pages
...mortgages, are recorded by the clerks ef the several counties, in books provided for that purpose. 568. A mortgage is the conveyance of an estate, by way...of debt, and to become void on the payment of it. The condition upon which the land is conveyed is usually put in the deed of conveyance, but the defeasance... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - Law reports, digests, etc - 1836 - 526 pages
...on all persons whomsoever." Judge Kent, in the 4th vol. of his commentaries, (page 129, &c.) says, " a mortgage is the conveyance of an estate, by way...pledge, for the security of debt, and to become void on payment of it. The legal ownership is vested in the creditor ; but in equity, the mortgagor remains... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Economics - 1839 - 472 pages
...is the proof of the title ' real estate obtained ? What ia the effect of a deed without heir § 636. A mortgage is the conveyance of an estate, by way of pledge for the security of debt, and is to become void on the payment of it. The condition upon which the land is conveyed, is usually put... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - Equity - 1846 - 376 pages
...severity, with which the common law, followed the A mortgage is defined, by Chancellor Kent, to be the conveyance of an estate by way of pledge for the security of debt, ' — — — ' •. breach of the condition. They did not, indeed, attempt to alter the legal effect... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 738 pages
...mortgagor and mortgagee. But that is not their relation. A mortgage is defined by Chancellor Kent as " the conveyance of an estate, by way of pledge for the security of a debt, and to become void on payment of it. The legal ownership is vested in the creditor ; but, in... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1848 - 798 pages
...Crafts, 18 Johns. Rep. 110. Sweet r. Horn, 1 Adam? NH Rep. 32. LECTURE LVIII. ON THE LAW OF MORTGAGE. A MORTGAGE is the conveyance of an estate, by way...pledge for the security of debt; and to become void on payment of it. The legal ownership is vested in the creditor ; but, in equity, the mortgagor remains... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1839 - 384 pages
...mortgages, are recorded by the clerks of the several counties in books prepared for that purpose. § 636. A mortgage is the conveyance of an estate, by way of pledge for the security of debt, and is to become void on the payment of it. The condition upon which the land is conveyed, is usually put... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Law - 1851 - 570 pages
...which the rents and profits went towards the discharge of the debt. Cralb's Hist. 108. In modern law. The conveyance of an estate, by way of pledge for the security of debt, and to become void on payment of it. 4 Kent's Com. 135. A conveyance of lands, chattels or other subjects of property as... | |
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A MORTGAGE is the conveyance of an estate, by way of pledge for the security of debt, and to become void on payment of it. 
