Welsh mortgage

noun

: an obsolete mortgage in which the mortgagee may keep the rents and profits of the estate in satisfaction of interest but cannot enforce payment of the principal and the mortgagor can redeem at any time by payment of the principal compare living pledge

Word History

First Known Use

1726, in the meaning defined above

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