mortgagor in English
noun
1
the borrower in a mortgage, typically a homeowner.
An attornment clause in a mortgage whereby the mortgagor attorns tenant at will to the mortgagee is not a true contract and so is not ‘an agreement’ for present purposes.
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1. 3 The Judicature Act decided that as against a stranger the mortgagor in possession must be treated as owner.
2. Curtailment of mortgage payments is a process by which a mortgagor can shorten the life of a mortgage and lessen the total amount of mortgage payments due
3. ‘An attornment clause in a mortgage whereby the mortgagor Attorns tenant at will to the mortgagee is not a true contract.’ Origin Middle English (in the senses ‘turn, change, transform’): from Old French atorner ‘appoint, assign’, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + torner ‘to turn’.