• Hypothec

    Full definition of hypothec

    Noun

    hypothec

    (usually uncountable; plural hypothecs)
    1. (legal) In Scotland, a landlord's right over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.
    2. (colloquial) Everything; the whole lot....saddle and all, the whole hypothec turned round and grovelled in the dust below the donkey’s belly.

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