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  2. Pledge (law) - Wikipedia

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    A pledge of real property which allowed the use and occupation of the pledged property, in lieu of interest on the loan, used to be called an antichresis, but contemporary law of most civil law jurisdictions only allows hypothec as the sole security interest applicable to real estate and (in some cases) marine vessels (ship hypothec), while ...

  3. Mortgage law - Wikipedia

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    A mortgage lender is an investor that lends money secured by a mortgage on real estate. In today's world, most lenders sell the loans they write on the secondary mortgage market. When they sell the mortgage, they earn revenue called Service Release Premium. Typically, the purpose of the loan is for the borrower to purchase that same real estate.

  4. Negative pledge - Wikipedia

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    In Australia, negative pledge lending took off after a substantial deal by Pioneer Concrete in 1978. [1] It was a new way of lending, which allowed the banks to lend to corporations, something previously the domain of life insurers. Negative pledge clauses are almost universal in modern unsecured commercial loan documents.

  5. Rule against perpetuities - Wikipedia

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    The rule against perpetuities serves a number of purposes. First, English courts have long recognized that allowing owners to attach long-lasting contingencies to their property harms the ability of future generations to freely buy and sell the property, since few people would be willing to buy property that had unresolved issues regarding its ownership hanging over it.

  6. Deed in lieu of foreclosure - Wikipedia

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    A deed in lieu of foreclosure is a deed instrument in which a mortgagor (i.e. the borrower) conveys all interest in a real property to the mortgagee (i.e. the lender) to satisfy a loan that is in default and avoid foreclosure proceedings. The deed in lieu of foreclosure offers several advantages to both the borrower and the lender.

  7. What is dead peasant insurance? - AOL

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    Buy-sell agreements: An entity buy-sell agreement is when a business owns life insurance on each co-owner of the company. If a death occurs, the company uses the life insurance proceeds to ...

  8. List of Philippine legal terms - Wikipedia

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    Owing to the unique history of the Philippines, its legal system is an equally unique blend of civil law (Spanish law), common law (American law), and, especially in Mindanao, Shariah law. Below is a list of Philippine legal terms:

  9. Automatic renewal clause - Wikipedia

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    An automatic renewal clause is used in the insurance and healthcare industries . An automatic renewal clause (also referred to as an evergreen clause), is activated towards the end of the contractual period whereby it automatically renews the terms of an agreement except when the contract is terminated (through mutual agreement or contract breach), or one of the contracting parties has sent a ...