(v.t.) To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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