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Last Updated: November 15, 2006 Related resource areas: Personal Finance


A legal document that pledges a property to the lender as security for payment of a debt. A written agreement containing a promise of the signer to pay to a named person, or order, or bearer, a definite sum of money at a specified date or on demand.


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