When a mortgagee acquires a portion of equity of redemption, the mortgage is not extinguished completely. There can be only a pro tanto extinguishment of the mortgage right to the extent of the mortgagee acquiring the mortgagor's interest and so far as the other sharer of the equity of redemption is concerned, the mortgagee will subsist. This was held in case of:

When a mortgagee acquires a portion of equity of redemption, the mortgage is not extinguished completely. There can be only a pro tanto extinguishment of the mortgage right to the extent of the mortgagee acquiring the mortgagor's interest and so far as the other sharer of the equity of redemption is concerned, the mortgagee will subsist. This was held in case of: Correct Answer Madhavan v. Madhavan, AIR 1994 Ker 75

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Section 58 enumerates some classes mortgages:
(1) Simple mortgage
(2) Mortgage by conditional sale
(3) Usufructuary mortgage
(4) English mortgage
(5) Equitable mortgage
(6) Anomalous mortgage
Legal subrogation occur in following ways:
(1) a puisne mortgagee redeeming a prior mortgage.
(2) a co-mortgagor's surety redeeming the mortgage.
(3) mortgagor's surety redeeming.
(4) a purchaser of the equity of redemption redeeming a mortgage.