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HYPOTHECARII CREDITORES
Lat. In the civil law. Hypothecary creditors; those who loaned money on the security of an hypotheca, (q. v.) Calvin.

Lat. In the civil law. Hypothecary creditors; those who loaned money on the security of an hypotheca, (q. v.) Calvin. Less...
HYPOTHECARY ACTION
The name of an action allowed under the civil law for the enforcement of the claims of a creditor by the contract of hypotheca. Lovell v. Cragin, 136 U. S. 130, 10 Sup. Ct 1024, 34 L. Ed. 372.

The name of an action allowed under the civil law for the enforcement of the claims of a creditor by the contract of hypotheca. Lovell v. Cragin, 136 U. S. 130, 10 Sup. Ct 1024, 34 L. Ed. 372. Less...
HYPOTHECATE
To pledge a thing without delivering the possession of it to the pledgee. "The master, when abroad, and in the absence of the owner, may hypothecate the ship, freight, and cargo, to raise money requisite for the completion of the voyage." 3 Kent Comm. 171. See Spect v. Spect, 88 More...

To pledge a thing without delivering the possession of it to the pledgee. "The master, when abroad, and in the absence of the owner, may hypothecate the ship, freight, and cargo, to raise money requisite for the completion of the voyage." 3 Kent Comm. 171. See Spect v. Spect, 88 Cal. 437, 26 Pac. 203, 13 L. R. A. 137, 22 Am. St. Rep. 314; Ogden v. Lathrop, 31 N. Y. Super. Ct. 651. Less...
HYPOTHECATION
A term borrowed from the civil law. In so far as it is naturalized in English and American law, it means a contract of mortgage or pledge in which the subject-matter is not delivered into the possession of the pledgee or pawnee; or, conversely, a conventional right existing in one More...

A term borrowed from the civil law. In so far as it is naturalized in English and American law, it means a contract of mortgage or pledge in which the subject-matter is not delivered into the possession of the pledgee or pawnee; or, conversely, a conventional right existing in one person over specific property of another, which consists in the: power to cause a sale of the same, though it be not in his possession, in order that a specific claim of the creditor may be satisfied. Out of the proceeds. The term is frequently used in our textbooks and reports, particularly upon the law of bottomry and maritime liens; thus a vessel is said to be hypothecated for the. demand of one who has advanced money for supplies. In the common law/ there are but few, if any, cases of hypothecation, in the strict sense of the civil law; that is, a pledge without possession by the pledgee. The nearest approaches, perhaps, are cases of bottomry bonds and Claims of materialmen, and of seamen' for wages; but these are liens and privileges, rather than hypothecations. Story, Bailm. f 28a "Hypothecation" is a term of the civil law, and is that kind of pledge in which the possession of the thing pledged remains with the debtor, (the obligation resting in mere contract without delivery;) and in- this respect distinguished from "pignus" in which possession is delivered to the creditor or pawnee. Whitney v. Feay, 24 Ark. 27. See 2 Bell, Comm; 25. Less...
HYPOTHECATION BOND
A bond given in the contract of bottomry or respondentia.

A bond given in the contract of bottomry or respondentia. Less...
HYPOTHEQUE
In French law. Hypothecation; a mortgage on real property; the right vested in a creditor by the assignment to him of real estate as security for the payment of his debt whether or not it be accompanied by possession. See Civ. Code La. art 3360. It corresponds to the mortgage More...

In French law. Hypothecation; a mortgage on real property; the right vested in a creditor by the assignment to him of real estate as security for the payment of his debt whether or not it be accompanied by possession. See Civ. Code La. art 3360. It corresponds to the mortgage of real property in English law, and is a real charge, following the property intd whosesoever hands it comes. It may be legale, as in the case of the charge which the state has over the lands of its accountants, or which a married woman has over those of her husband; judiciaire, when it is the result of a judgment of a court of justice; and conventioneUe, when it is the result of an agreement of the parties. Brown. Less...
HYPOTHESIS
A supposition, assumption, or theory; a theory set up by the prosecution, on a criminal trial, or by the defense, as an explanation of the facts in evidence, and a ground for Inferring guilt or Innocence, as the case may be, or as indicating a probable or possible motive for More...

A supposition, assumption, or theory; a theory set up by the prosecution, on a criminal trial, or by the defense, as an explanation of the facts in evidence, and a ground for Inferring guilt or Innocence, as the case may be, or as indicating a probable or possible motive for the crime. Less...
HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION
A combination of assumed or proved facts and circumstances, stated In such form as to constitute a coherent and specific situation or state of facts, upon which the opinion of an expert is asked, by way of evidence on a trial. Howard v. People, 185 111. 552, 57 N. E. More...

A combination of assumed or proved facts and circumstances, stated In such form as to constitute a coherent and specific situation or state of facts, upon which the opinion of an expert is asked, by way of evidence on a trial. Howard v. People, 185 111. 552, 57 N. E. 441; People v. Durrant, 116 Cal. 216, 48 Pac. 85; Cowley v. People, 83 N. Y. 464. 38 Am. Rep. 464; Stearns v. Field, 90 N. Y. 641. Less...
HYPOTHETICAL YEARLY TENANCY
The basis, in England, of rating lands and hereditaments to the poor-rate, and to other rates and taxes that are expressed to be leviable or assessable in like manner as the poor-rate.

The basis, in England, of rating lands and hereditaments to the poor-rate, and to other rates and taxes that are expressed to be leviable or assessable in like manner as the poor-rate. Less...
HYRNES
In old English law. A parish.

In old English law. A parish. Less...

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