(finance) A type of mortgage (typically a loan to buy a house) where, over the term of the loan, the borrower's regular payments to the lender cover only the interest charged by the lender. At the same time, the borrower makes regular payments into a separate savings or investment plan. When this plan matures, the borrower uses the proceeds to repay the principal of the loan. Contrasted with repayment mortgage.

(law) A special form of secured loan where the purpose of the loan must be specified to the lender, to purchase assets that must be fixed (not movable) property, such as a house or piece of farm land. The assets are registered as the legal property of the borrower but the lender can seize them and dispose of them if they are not satisfied with the manner in which the repayment of the loan is conducted by the borrower. Once the loan is fully repaid, the lender loses this right of seizure and the assets are then deemed to be unencumbered.

(transitive, law) To borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the right of seizure to the lender over a fixed property such as a house or piece of land; to pledge a property in order to get a loan.

The state of being susceptible to death. / (archaic) The quality of being punishable by death. / (archaic) The quality of causing death.

Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal. / Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.). / Punishable by death. / Fatally vulnerable.

A human; someone susceptible to death.

(colloquial) Mortally; enough to cause death.

(euphemistic, idiomatic) To die; to divest oneself of one's mortal body.

One who provides a loan secured upon the borrowers' property, the lender in a mortgage agreement.

The chaos and confusion of life. / The physical body of man (containing the spirit inside).