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Noun
hypothec

1. Scottish law. A landlord's right over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.

#Colloquially used for "the whole lot".
#:..saddle and all, the whole hypothec turned round and grovelled in the dust below the donkey�s belly.

References
:s:Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes|Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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