Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• OPEN-END MORTGAGE CLAUSE
  
  a provision in mortgage contracts in some states, that declares the mortgaged real estate may be used as security for future additional advances from the original lender, if the lender and borrower agree. All subsequent advances under this clause represent a claim on the property dating back to the time of recording the original mortgage.
  
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