Counter Letter
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In the civil law. An instrument in writing, executed by the lender of money to whom property has been conveyed by an absolute deed as security, by which he agrees, on payment of a certain sum, to re-convey the same property to the borrower.
11 Peters* R, 351, 354, arg. Wayne, J., Id. 386.
Both instrument^ibnstitute, by the law of Louisiana, th^kind of contract denominated an antichresis, (q. v.) Id. 388.