Foreclosure
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In equity practice
The process of barring the equity of redemption of a mortgagor, by filing a bill for that purpose, called a bill of foreclosure.
2 Barbour's Chanc. Fr. 171, 186. 2 Crabb's Beal Frop. 918. 4 Kent's Com. 180.