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first mortgage

a mortgage having priority over all other liens or encumbrances on the same property, except those, as real estate taxes, given priority by statute

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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