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Mortgage
A debt instrument, secured by the collateral of specified real estate property, that the borrower is obliged to pay back with a predetermined set of payments.
Derived from the Old French term mort gage (literally "dead pledge"), referring to the debt dying when the property is taken or when the loan is fully repaid. Modern, long-term mortgages evolved in the U.S. in the 1930s.
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