Definition of Foreclosed

1. Verb. (past of foreclose) ¹

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Definition of Foreclosed

1. foreclose [v] - See also: foreclose

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreclosed

forecastles
forecasts
forecheck
forechecked
forechecker
forecheckers
forechecking
forechecks
forechoice
forechoose
forechosen
forecited
foreclosable
foreclose
forecloseable
foreclosed (current term)
foreclosee
foreclosees
forecloser
foreclosers
forecloses
foreclosing
foreclosure
foreclosures
foreconceive
foreconceived
foreconscious
forecourt
forecourts
forecrown

Literary usage of Foreclosed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages by John Joseph Powell, Thomas Coventry (1826)
"... her bill in Chancery, praying, that he might either pay her both those debts, with interest and costs, or be foreclosed of bis equity of redemption. ..."

2. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"After Election, Claimant foreclosed.—Where the claimant has elected to waive the tort and claim upon implied contract and has prosecuted the elected remedy ..."

3. Forms of Judgments and Orders in the High Court of Justice and Court of by Cecil Clare Marston Dale, W. Tindal King, W. O. Goldschmidt, Sir Henry Wilmot Seton, Great Britain Court of Appeal (1901)
"And in case of such foreclosure compute &c ; Deft B. [mortgagor] to redeem Pits within three months or be foreclosed ; 6. But in case Defts C. and D. ..."

4. A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law: Whether of a by William Wait (1878)
"... may be foreclosed, and the undivided interest sold. Baker v. Shephard, 30 Ga. 706. So, where there are two co- mortgagees, and one has become the owner ..."

5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1889)
"Serious defects of land description in a mortgage foreclosed and in the deed given by the officer, cannot be corrected as against a subsequent deed and ..."

6. Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure by William Mack, Howard Pervear Nash (1903)
"... statutes provide that mortgages upon certain classes of chattels may be foreclosed only in a court of record.32 3. MODIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES.33 "While the ..."

7. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"little as she delights in it, rather than suffer herself to be foreclosed in her great commercial schemes. I have the honor to be, &c., Morris to Jay. ..."

8. A Digest of the Law of Scotland: With Special Reference to the Office and by Hugh Barclay, Scotland (1855)
"The right of redemption Ls only properly foreclosed by a decree of declarator of expiry of the le.-al in the Court of .Session, or forty years' possession ..."

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