Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

Connter-letter

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A species of instrument of defeasance common in the civil law. It is executed by a party who has taken a deed of property, absolute on its face, but intended as security for a loan of money, and by it he agrees to reconvey the property on payment of a specified sum. The two instruments, taken together, constitute what is known in 'Louisiana as an "antichresis," (q. v.)