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By Shefali
A mortgage is a transfer of an interest in immovable property. One person gives
his/her property to another in exchange for money as a loan for a specific period.
The loan can be taken on immovable property specifically, which is tangible form.
However, in case of default in repayment, person holding the mortgaged property can
sell or use the property to compensate for his loss.
The transaction conditions depend on the parties; for example, when a person lends
money to another, he may do so without asking for any security or demand some
security for the payment of money. Then, in case of default, when there was no
security taken, person who lent the money may sue for repayment. And if there is
some security taken, that security may be used to recoup the lost money.
There was no law in specific related to mortgage property transactions before 1882.
After establishment of Transfer of Property Act, the rights and liabilities, laws
governing with mortgage, mortgagee, mortgagor took a systematic and much-needed
change, and detailed regulations were made. Before the 1882 Act, though act did not
apply to previous transactions, however, mortgagor's right to redemption existed to
recoup the repayment of the mortgage money.[1]
=suit of mortgage is subject to the rule of lis pendens. contract. The essential
feature of mortgage that there is a proviso for redemption;[2] it is a conveyance
of the legal interest in property. It means that after the repayment of loan, the
conveyance becomes void.