...2527.) Ques. What is a chattel mortgage ? Ans. It is a contract in writing by which specific personal property is hypothecated for the performance of an...without the necessity of a change of posses*sion. (CC 2920.) Ques. What is a respondentia bond ? Ans. It is a contract by which a cargo or some part...

...mortgage of personal property. Subchapter I — General Provisions § 4111. Definition of mortgage Mortgage is a contract by which specific property is hypothecated for the performance of nn act, without the necessity of a change of possession. § 4112. Formalities of creation A mortgage...

...legal title to the same property at the same time. A mortgage is defined by the Civil Code, section 2920, as follows: "Mortgage is a contract by which...hypothecate property where the title is in another. The question then arises whether the plaintiff, under the terms of the contract, had a lien to secure...

...lien." Consequently, all words of grant or transfer in a mortgage are unmeaning, useless and obsolete. " Mortgage is a contract by which specific property...act, without the necessity of a change of possession" : Sec. 4346 Comp. Laws. This definition voids the idea of a mortgage being in any sense a transfer...

...legal title to the same property at the same time. A mortgage is defined by the Civil Code, section 2920, as follows: "Mortgage is a contract by which...this could not be, since defendant was not the owner. [2] A person cannot hypothecate property where the title is in another. [3] The question then arises...

...time. A mortgage is defined hy the Civil Code, section 2920, as follows: "Mortgage is a contract hy which specific property is hypothecated for the performance...this could not be, since defendant was not the owner. [2] A person cannot hypothecate property where the title is in another. [3] The question then arises...

...in form. They pass no estate in the lands and are mere security. Under the code a mortgage is merely a contract by which specific property is hypothecated for the performance of an act. (McMillan v. Richards, 9 Cal. 365, [70 Am. Dec. 655] ; Fogarty v. Sawyer, 17 Cal. 589 ; Button v. Warschmier,...

...entered, defendants Martin and Bunnell appealed. Our Civil Code contains these provisions: "Sec. 2042. Mortgage is a contract by which specific property...act, without the necessity of a change of possession. A mortgage of real property can be created, renewed or extended only by writing, executed with the...

...understood, it need not have been included in the definition. Section 2920 of the Civil Code defines it as follows : " Mortgage is a contract by which specific...without the necessity of a change of possession." The code commissioners, in a note to this section, say: "The definition of the text is new. It is designed...

...be recorded as a mortgage, and a separate book is provided for that purpose. (Civ. Code, § 1171.) A mortgage is a contract by which specific property...act without the necessity of a change of possession. (Civ. Code, § 2920.) A mortgage can be created, renewed, or ex^ tended only by writing executed with...