After heart-rending months of humiliation, upon the eve of foreclosure by the banks, Uncle Jap wrote a forlorn letter to Nathaniel, accepting his offer of fifty thousand dollars for the lake of oil.

I came to-day to tell him that the interest of the heaviest mortgage was long overdue, and that the mortgagee, who says that he has applied several times, is threatening foreclosure.

"The principal mortgagee has given me notice of foreclosure, and the amount of the debt is so large that I am afraidit would be cruel and useless to conceal the truth from youI know that the property sold would not be sufficient to meet it.

You are aware that Herondale, the whole estate, is heavily mortgaged, and that there was a foreclosure; that means that the whole of it would have passed away from you.

They could lay nothing aside, and now, in 1894, there was not merely a threat, but the certainty, of a foreclosure unless the eleven hundred dollars should be paid.

There was a defect in the foreclosure proceedings which made them a permanent underlying security of the reorganized companyunder The Northern Pacific R.R. Co. vs. Boyd; you knowbut the court refused to hold that way.

Not by ordinary sale, either; but simply by foreclosure of a mortgage, under conditions which were certainly very hard for Mrs. Jacobs, inasmuch as one-half the interest has always been paid.

She did not know that the house was already dismantled, in anticipation of the probable foreclosure of a mortgage.

This was the commencement of Van Tassel's hostile attitude; and things had gone as far as a foreclosure, and an advertisement for a sale, when the good woman thus opportunely discovered her son! Chapter III.

"A couple of sailors about to dispute the foreclosure of a mortgage!

A treatise on the law and practice of mortgage foreclosure.

EAGER, SAMUEL W. A treatise on the law and practice of mortgage foreclosure.

A treatise on the law and practice of mortgage foreclosure.

EAGER, SAMUEL W. A treatise on the law and practice of mortgage foreclosure.

A treatise on the law and practice of mortgage foreclosure.

If a neighbor required a few hundred dollars to save the foreclosure of a mortgage, the combined resources of the family were taxed to aid him; if a poor student needed a helping hand in his preparation for college, or for teaching, it was gladly extended to himperhaps his board and lodging given him for six months or a yearwith much valuable instruction thrown in.

Foreclosure and sale were a perennial source of profit to him.

"'Is it a case o' foreclosure, Brooke?' says I to him one day in the road.

It is enough that the land-shark forgot his illegal traffic in claims; the money-lender ceased for one day to talk of mortgages and per cent and foreclosure; the fat gentleman left his corner-lots.

The security of mortgages is very generally impaired by legislation confining the creditor to only one remedy and delaying his possession under foreclosure.

Moreover, with the practice of delaying possession under foreclosure, appointing receivers in the interest of the debtor, etc., he is in many States so delayed in getting possession of his security that by the time he acquires it he will find it burdened with overdue taxes and in a state of general dilapidation.

Foreclosure of mortgages regulated by statute in United States.

Mortgages (see Foreclosure), foreclosure of, difficult in United States; modern legislation in United States impairs security of.

Mortgages (see Foreclosure), foreclosure of, difficult in United States; modern legislation in United States impairs security of.

Then he saw memoranda that were not on any paper before himsuch a mortgage to be met on such a date; so much from Fausse Rivière Plantation account retained to protect that mortgage from foreclosure; such another to be met on such a dateso much more of same account to protect it.