judicial mortgage

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judicial mortgage - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  JUDICIAL MORTGAGE. In Louisiana, it is the lien resulting from judgments, 
  whether these be rendered on contested cases, or by default, whether they be 
  final or provisional, in favor of the person obtaining them. Civ. Code of 
  Lo. art. 3289.