repossession

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They are also “more likely to have their account assigned to repossession within two years.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

In Southern California, repossession of a car whose owner is behind on loan payments is not uncommon.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026

They included a couple now £13,000 in arrears on a home they bought, and a woman who faced the repossession of a house she left following a marriage breakdown 15 years earlier.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025

The government confirmed that all section 21 notices issued before May will stand, but it said landlords must begin court repossession proceedings by 31 July 2026.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025

They had it in contemplation, in 1795, to take repossession of Sambas, and wrote to Abdul Ramman as to the preparatory measures requisite, when the English war, as before observed, obliged them to abandon Pontiana.

From The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Keppel, Henry