Definition of "purchase-money" [purchase-money]

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

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I have no need of her purchase-money: my fear is lest life as well as money go."
• "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."
• "In many states Wisconsin, for example, the homestead exemption did not cover a purchase-money mortgage."