mortgage

A loan for the purchase of real property, secured by a lien on the property.

The document specifying the terms and conditions of the repayment of such a loan.

The repayment obligation associated with such a loan.

The right to payment associated with such a loan.

The lien on the property associated with such a loan.

To pledge (real property) as the security for a loan.

To make subject to a claim or risk; pledge against a doubtful outcome.

At common law (and according to the present rule in some of the United States, and in form in nearly all, if not all, the States), a conveyance of real estate or some interest therein, defeasible upon the payment of money or the performance of some other condition.

By the law of most of the United States, a lien or charge upon specific property, real or personal, created by what purports to be an express transfer of title, with or without possession, but accompanied by a condition that the transfer shall be void if in due time the money be paid or the thing done to secure which the transfer is given.

A state or condition resembling that of mortgaged property.