Foreclose

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To enforce (a lien, deed of trust, or mortgage) in whatever manner is provided for by law.
  • intransitive verb. To bring a suit to prevent a mortgagor from redeeming (a property) by paying any outstanding debt.
  • intransitive verb. To exclude or rule out; bar.
  • intransitive verb. To settle or resolve beforehand.
  • intransitive verb. To enforce a lien, deed of trust, or mortgage as permitted by law.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To shut out; exclude; prevent.
  • In law: To shut out by a judicial decree from further opportunity to assert a right or claim: said of the process by which all persons previously having right to redeem property from a forfeiture for non-payment of a debt are finally cut off from that right: as, to foreclose a mortgager of his equity of redemption.
  • Hence— To enforce, as a mortgage, by shutting out in due process of law a mortgager and those claiming under him from the right to redeem the property mortgaged.
  • To enforce a mortgage.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
  • transitive verb. to cut him off by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, termed his equity of redemption.
  • transitive verb. (not technically correct, but often used to signify) the obtaining a judgment for the payment of an overdue mortgage, and the exposure of the mortgaged property to sale to meet the mortgage debt.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments
  • verb. to prevent from doing something
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. keep from happening or arising; make impossible
  • verb. subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage
  • Word Usage
    ""They granted you a mortgage, and that's recorded in the land records, and the company that has the mortgage and can foreclose is MERS.""
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