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Hypotheca

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In civil law

That kind of pledge in which the possession of the thing pledged remains with the debtor; the obligation resting in mere contact.

Dig. 1. 3. 7. 9. 2.