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mortgage
mortgage in law, device for protecting a creditor by giving him an interest in property of his debtor. In common law a mortgage was a conditional sale; i.e., the mortgagor (debtor) sold realty (real property mortgage) or personal property (chattel mortgage), but if the debtor paid the debt by a... Read more |
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Mortgage discrimination
BUSINESS, MINORITY BUSINESS, MINORITY. The term "minority business" refers to businesses owned by members of racial or ethnic minority groups. Through the middle of the twentieth century, such enterprises were typically small businesses with relatively small amounts of working capital that served... Read more |
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Government National Mortgage Association
GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION The Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), also known as Ginnie Mae, is a corporation wholly owned by the federal government. Created by the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, 825 Stat. 491, GNMA is designed to support the federal... Read more |
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Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation 1133 Twenty-First Street N.W., Suite 600Washington, D.C. 20036U.S.A.Telephone: (202) 872-7700Toll Free: (800) 879-3276Fax: (202) 872-7713Web site: http://www.farmermac.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1987Employees: 38Total Assets: $3.84 billion... Read more |
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Federal National Mortgage Association
Fannie Mae 3900 Wisconsin Avenue, NWWashington, D.C. 20016U.S.A.Telephone: (202) 752-7000Toll Free: (800) 732-6643Fax: (202)-752-4934Web site: http://www.fanniemae.com Publicly Owned Government CorporationIncorporated: 1938 as National Mortgage Association of WashingtonEmployees: 4,200Total... Read more |
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Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation commonly known as Freddie Mac, privately owned, government-sponsored organization that uses private capital to buy home mortgages as a means to help lower housing costs. A sister institution to the Federal National Mortgage Association , as well as a... Read more |
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Presupposition (Logic)
ASSUMPTION The undertaking of the repayment of a debt or the performance of an obligation owed by another. When a purchaser of real property assumes the mortgage of the seller, he or she agrees to adopt the mortgage debt, becoming personally liable for its full repayment in case of default. If a... Read more |
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Deficiency
DEFICIENCY A shortage or insufficiency. The amount by which federal income tax due exceeds the amount reported by the taxpayer on his or her return; also, the amount owed by a taxpayer who has not filed a return. The outstanding balance of a debt secured by a mortgage after the mortgaged property... Read more |
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Federal Home Loan Banks
Federal Home Loan Banks Twelve regional organizations in the USA that supply credit for savings and loans associations (the US equivalent of building societies) and other organizations providing domestic mortgages. They are independent organizations but since 1989 they have been supervised by a... Read more |
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Home Owners Loan Corporation
Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC), former U.S. government agency established in 1933 to help stabilize real estate that had depreciated during the depression and to refinance the urban mortgage debt. It granted long-term mortgage loans to some 1 million homeowners facing loss of their property.... Read more |
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housing
...purchasing their homes through mortgages. Little house-building took...societies were able to advance mortgages to owner-occupiers during...level of repossession due to mortgage arrears, continued to be...coming from the government and mortgage lenders. Ian ... |
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Bronson v. Kinzie
...Illinois statutes that limited mortgage foreclosure sales and gave...retroactive, applying to mortgages made before the acts were...Bronson sought to foreclose the mortgage free of the legislative restrictions...the terms of the existing mortgage was an ... |
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Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell
...legislation at issue was the 1933 Minnesota Mortgage Moratorium Law. The act authorized a Minnesota...mindful of the problems of farmers facing mortgage foreclosures. This particular case arose...John H. Blaisdell, who had received a mortgage on a house and lot from the Home ... |
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bottomry
...sometimes also known as bummaree, is a long defunct term for a mortgage on a ship executed by a master who was out of touch with his...of registry. A bottomry bond took priority over all other mortgages, but if the ship was lost at sea before the voyage was completed... |
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Ned McCobb's Daughter
...husband, George ( Earle Larimore), has forced McCobb to mortgage his farm to pay for an abortion for George's mistress and...Babe ( Alfred Lunt), offers Carrie the money to pay off the mortgage and to provide George's legal fees in return for allowing... |
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County Fair, The
...farm because she has not enough money to make payments on the mortgage. But she has a horse named Cold Molasses, and when she runs...county fair, he wins the $3,000 she needs to buy back the mortgage. This makes everyone happy since Abigail is a nice old lady... |
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ADVERBIAL
...in Unfortunately, the bank will not give me a large enough mortgage) or a clause within a sentence (unfortunately in I wanted...but unfortunately the bank will not give me a large enough mortgage). The two major classes of sentence adverbs are conjuncts... |
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The G.I. Bill
...educational grants for higher education or vocational training, mortgage loan guarantees for home buyers, and cash payments for those...that after World War I. In addition, over 3.5 million mortgages would be partially guaranteed under the homeowners’ loan... |
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banking
...of function and to the emergence of formal banking facilities. At the same time, financial transactions such as lending on mortgage were undertaken by a range of individuals, especially attorneys, through whose hands a great deal of money might pass. Banks... |
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Contracts Clause
...Association v. Blaisdell (1934). In Blaisdell, the Court upheld a Minnesota statute that extended the period of redemption for mortgage default. The Court's justification was entirely pragmatic. In the face of economic emergency, and given the temporary... |
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Mortgage Law
...charge by way of legal mortgage.All other mortgages are equitable mortgages...see below).Second mortgages A second or subsequent mortgage may be taken out on...amount of the previous mortgage(s). All ... |
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ISA mortgage
ISA mortgage A mortgage in which the borrower repays only the interest on the loan to the...When the ISA matures it is used to repay the capital. An ISA mortgage is similar to an endowment mortgage, except that it does not provide... |
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mortgage
mortgage conveyance of property by a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt. XIV (morgage; the sp. mortgage was established by leg. usage XVI). — OF. mortgage ‘dead pledge’, f. mort dead:- popL. var. *mortus... |
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wraparound mortgage
wrap·a·round mort·gage • n. a second mortgage held by a lender who collects payments on it and the first mortgage from the borrower. The lender makes the payments to the original mortgage holder. |
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foreclose
...result of the mortgagor's failure to keep up their mortgage payments: the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage. ∎ [tr.] take away someone's power of redeeming (a mortgage) and take possession of the mortgaged property. 2... |
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remortgage
re·mort·gage / rēˈmôrgij/ • v. [tr.] take out another or a different kind of mortgage on (a property). • n. a different or additional mortgage. |
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cost object
...of these (e.g., designing a new product, processing a mortgage application, making a telephone call to a customer). The...weekly or monthly basis, whereas the cost of processing a mortgage application may only be calculated on an annual basis. |
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Federal Home Loan Banks
...building societies) and other organizations providing domestic mortgages. They are independent organizations but since 1989 they...legislation made it a duty for district banks to provide cheap mortgage finance for borrowers on low incomes. |
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G.I. Bill of Rights
...included grants for higher education or vocational training, mortgage loan guarantees for home buying, and cash payments for those...discharge. By providing help for more than 3.5 million home mortgages, the bill was instrumental in encouraging the rapid growth... |
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Babbage
...headage •appendage • windage • bondage •vagabondage • cordage • poundage •wordage • staffage • roughage •baggage • mortgage • luggage •package, trackage •tankage • wreckage • breakage •leakage •linkage, shrinkage, sinkage •blockage, dockage... |
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loan
loan • noun a loan from the banksynonyms: lending, moneylending, advancing; advance, credit, mortgage. |
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pawn
pawn • verb pawn her necklace to pay the rentsynonyms: deposit with a pawnbroker, put in pawn, give as security, pledge, mortgage; inf. hock, put in hock. |
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pledge
...affirm, avow. 2. they pledged $10 million synonyms: promise (to give), donate, contribute, give, put up. 3. his home is pledged as security against the loan synonyms: mortgage, put up as collateral, guarantee, pawn. |
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redemption
...return. 3. the redemption of credit vouchers synonyms: exchange, cashing in, conversion. 4. the redemption of the mortgage synonyms: paying off, paying back, discharge, clearing, honoring. 5. the redemption of his obligations synonyms: fulfillment... |
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limbo
limbo phrase: in limbo our mortgage approval is in limbosynonyms: in abeyance, unattended to, unfinished; suspended, deferred, postponed, put off, pending... |
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Mortgage Lending News: Boyd Group Income Fund (TSX:BYD.UN) announces...
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Mortgage Lending News: Falcon Oil & Gas (TSXV:FO.V) to Present at the...
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Mortgage Lending News: GE Capital (NYSE:GE) Closes $78 Million in Credit...
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Top Mortgage Brokers.
...dropoffs (part 1 of 2) Company Location L.J. Melody and Co. Houston, TX Prism Mortgage Corp. Chicago, IL Skyscraper Mortgage Co. New York, NY Keystone Mortgage Partners, LLC Phoenix, AZ Mortgage Master Norwood, MA First Home Mortgage Corp... |
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Mortgage Lending News: RioCan goes ahead with $31.7 million commercial land...
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Mortgage Lending News: PNC Financial Services Group Inc (NYSE: PNC) today...
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Mortgage Lending News: MicroFinancial Incorporated (NASDAQ: MFI) announced...
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Mortgage Banking Mergers and Acquisitions Announced in 1998.(Illustration)
...2 Growth Origin Rank Rank 1 38 Prism Mortgage, Chicago 2 33 Peoples Heritage Bank, Portland, Maine 3 67 Mortgage Investors Corp., St. Petersburg...National Bank of New York 6 47 Firstar Home Mortgage Corp., Bloomington, Minn. 7 25 Source... |
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Mortgage Lending News: AlarmForce (Toronto:AF.TO) to Release Q3 2011...
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Mortgage Lending News: TSX briefly turns higher, helped by gold.
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