All 12 Uses
mortgage
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All the King's Men
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- He was paying his way, he said, even if he had to put another mortgage on his pappy's farm and the last one it would hold.†
Chpt 2 *mortgage = a real estate loan; or pledging something for a loan
- Yes, and if there was anybody who couldn't afford two dollars to pay his poll tax and came to him and said it straight out, he, Willie Stark, would pay that tax out of money he had got by mortgaging his pappy's farm.†
Chpt 2mortgaging = pledging as collateral (something that has to be given to the lender if the loan isn't paid as agreed)
- Or Martten's when he found out I knew how the bank over in Okaloosa holds a mortgage on his place falling due in about five weeks.†
Chpt 3mortgage = a real estate loan; or pledging something for a loan
- And in 1907, there was the entry: Mortgage, Montague Irwin to Mortonville Mercantile Bank, $42,000, due January 1, 1910.†
Chpt 5
- Late in January, 1910, a chunk had been paid, about $12,000 and the mortgage redrawn.†
Chpt 5
- In early May there was an entry for the satisfaction of the mortgage in full.†
Chpt 5
- Judge Irwin had not paid off his mortgage in 1914 with his wife's money.†
Chpt 5
- Well, you don't clear $44,000 a season off a cotton plantation (it was that amount he had paid, for the $12,000 he had paid in 1910 had come from a mortgage on the house in the Landing, I discovered, which he cleared at the same time as the plantation).†
Chpt 5
- That meant Irwin had plenty in his pocket in late May to pay off the mortgages and have some change left over.†
Chpt 5mortgages = real estate loans; or pledges something for a loan
- There was the mortgage.†
Chpt 5mortgage = a real estate loan; or pledging something for a loan
- For one thing, the house is heavily mortgaged.†
Chpt 10mortgaged = pledged as collateral (something that has to be given to the lender if the loan isn't paid as agreed)
- Once before, almost twenty-five years before, it had been heavily mortgaged.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(mortgage) a real estate loan; or to offer real estate as collateral for a loan
(collateral is something that has to be given to the lender if the loan isn't paid as agreed) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)