1.   A million families have insolvency hanging over them as their mortgage debts have grown greater than the values of their homes.

2.   Borrowers were told that policies might not only clear their mortgage debt but might also give them an additional lump sum.

3.   People threatened with repossession because of mortgage debts now make up one in seven of their cases.

4.   Land and property owners, developers and builders, those who hold the mortgage debt, and state functionaries have most to gain.

5.   Marketable wealth comprises stocks and shares, cash, bank deposits, consumer durables, buildings, trade assets, land, and dwellings net of mortgage debt.

6.   Assuming the mortgage debt In the past practitioners have had considerable difficulty where the transferee wife took over property subject to a mortgage liability.

7.   In a non husband and wife situation the mortgage debt assumed will be added to the consideration paid to arrive at the total amount subject to stamp duty.

8.   At a time when all the experts recommended loading up on mortgage debt, they did the opposite.

9.   All the mortgage debt on properties in both companies will remain, Portman said.

10.   Earthquake victims staged a protest in Kobe, complaining that they are still without homes while the government plans to cover bad mortgage debts.