purchase money mortgage

purchase money mortgage
purchase money mortgage see mortgage

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

purchase money mortgage
A security device entered into when the seller of property, as opposed to a bank or financial institution, advances a sum of money or credit to the purchaser in return for holding the mortgage on the property.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


purchase money mortgage
A security device entered into when the seller of property, as opposed to a bank or financial institution, advances a sum of money or credit to the purchaser in return for holding the mortgage on the property.

Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.

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