Words in a deed providing that a creditor 'shall have first call on my estate' are capable of being construed as creating an equitable charge, as the hallmark of a charge is that it confers a prior claim to the relevant property over other creditors. It remains unresolved whether a covenant to charge the whole of a person's property creates a valid equitable charge.
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