purchase-money love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The money paid or contracted to be paid for anything bought.

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Examples

  • So he tore out the marble and wood-work and sold it and spent of its price, till he had made an end of all this also, when he took thought with himself and, finding that he had nothing left to expend, sold the house itself and spent the purchase-money.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I have no need of her purchase-money: my fear is lest life as well as money go.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • In many states Wisconsin, for example, the homestead exemption did not cover a purchase-money mortgage.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • In many states Wisconsin, for example, the homestead exemption did not cover a purchase-money mortgage.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • In many states Wisconsin, for example, the homestead exemption did not cover a purchase-money mortgage.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • The fifteen hundred francs which remained from the purchase-money of the

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • “How much is still owing of the purchase-money of the Verberie?”

    Eve and David 2007

  • “How much is still owing of the purchase-money of the Verberie?”

    Eve and David 2007

  • And Lousteau, on his side, was privately receiving five hundred francs of purchase-money, under the name of commission, from Fendant and Cavalier for introducing the future Sir Walter Scott to two enterprising tradesmen in search of a French Author of “Waverley.”

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • At for the Polwellan estate and mines, ‘the cause of endless litigation,’ it must be owned that our hero purchased them; but he never paid more than the first L5000 of the purchase-money.

    The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

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