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Part II Description of Interests, 6 Non-Possessory Security

From: The Law of Security and Title-Based Financing (3rd Edition)

Hugh Beale, Michael Bridge, Louise Gullifer, Eva Lomnicka

Content type:
Book content
Product:
Financial Law [FBL]
Published in print:
08 March 2018
ISBN:
9780198795568

From: Oxford Legal Research Library (http://olrl.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 02 December 2023

Subject(s):
Mortgage — Debt — Equity

This chapter analyses the nature of mortgage. It is a non-possessory security whereby the mortgagor transfers ownership to the mortgagee subject to an obligation to retransfer ownership on satisfaction of the underlying obligation. Since equity will enforce the retransfer, the right to it is not personal but amounts to an equitable interest called the equity of redemption. The actual right to redeem can be a legal right, arising expressly from the contract of mortgage: if that legal right to redeem is not exercised, an equitable right to redeem arises. However, since equity will enforce even the legal right to redeem against third parties, the mortgagor has an equitable interest called the ‘equity of redemption’ from the commencement of the mortgage.

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