Antichresis
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
zn contracts. A word used in the civil law to denote the contract by which a creditor acquires the right of reaping the fruit or. other revenues of the immoveables given to him in pledge, on condition of deducting annually their proceeds from the interest, if any is due to him, and afterwards from the principal of his debt. Louis. Code, art.
3143; Dict. de Juris. Antichrése, Mortgage; Code Civ. 2085.