Associations to the word «Hypothec»

Wiktionary

HYPOTHEC, noun. (legal) In Scotland, a landlord's right over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.
HYPOTHEC, noun. (colloquial) Everything; the whole lot.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope