DEFICIENCY

A lack, shortage, or ln• sufficiency. The difference between the total amount of the debt or payment meant to be secured by a mortgage and that realized on foreclosure and sale· when 'le than the total. A judgment or decree for the amount·of such f deficiency is called a "deficiency judgment" or "decree." Goldsmith v. Brown, 35 Barb. (N. Y.) 492. -Deficiency bill. In parliamentary practice, an appropriatipn bill covering items of expense omitted from the general appropriation f bill or bills, or for which insufficient ap-propria tions were made. If intended to cover a variety of such items it is commonly called e. "general deficiency bill;" if intended to make provision for expenses which must be met immediately, or which cannot wait the ordinary course of the general appropriation bills, it is G called an "urgent deficiency bill." De:flclente 'llD.O sanguine non potest e e hreres. S Coke, 41. One blood being want• lng, he cannot be heir. But see 3 & 4 Wm.. IV. c. 106, § 9, and 33 & _84 Viet. c. 23, I 1. H [s. 351]