from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
ANTICHRESIS, contracts. A word used in the civil law to denote the contract
by which a creditor acquires the right of reaping the fruit or other
revenues of the immovables given to him in pledge, on condition of
deducting, annually, their proceeds from the interest, if any is due to him,
and afterwards from the principal of his debt. Louis. Code, art. 3143 Dict.
de Juris. Antichrese, Mortgage; Code Civ. 2085. Dig. 13, 7, 7 ; 4, 24, 1
Code, 8, 28, 1.